Post * Z00G — Curious Curator

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TIL a Jeep can be disassembled and reassembled in under 4 minutes.

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7jvP TIL the Grandfather Clause. After the American Civil War, South States made literacy tests to prevent former black slaves from voting. When whites failed them too, an exception was given to anyone whose Grandfather was eligible to vote. All whites had eligible grandfathers and few blacks did.

9YyWr TIL Blaise Diagne,born in Senegal,was the 1st black African elected to the French Chamber of Deputies in 1914,also hold a position in the French gvt. His son would become the 1st black footballer in France,and won it in 1936. His grandson would be mayor of a French town until he died in 2017

8ex0L TIL 95 acres worth of corn are needed daily to keep up with production at Jack Daniel’s distillery

xbjw TIL Robert Liston performed an amputation resulting in 300% mortality. His patient died, he cut his assistant who developed gangrene, and an observer died of shock.

R77V9 TIL "Kamikaze pilots only had enough fuel for one-way missions" is actually a myth.