Post * Zpg9G — Curious Curator

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TIL that cicadas pee by ejecting water from their bodies and there’s a term called cicada rain.

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9D8G TIL that Timothy Dexter (1748 – 1806), an American businessman, faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter’s mock wake. When Dexter did not see his wife cry, he caned her for not grieving enough.

4dRX TIL that, though originally from the US, 7/11 has technically been a Japanese company since 1991. 7-Eleven Japan now runs all stores worldwide.

KYO6G TIL about the United States of Greater Austria, a proposal by Archduke Franz Ferdinand to federalise Austria-Hungary to resolve nationalist and ethnic tensions in the empire

JPQ8 TIL AT&T made a working answering machine in 1939 but suppressed it, thinking public fear of being recorded would lead to widespread abandonment of the telephone.

o568 TIL the African country of Liberia was founded by Americans to resettle freed black slaves. It is the first and oldest republic in Africa and is the only African country to have gained independence without revolt from a colonial power.