Post * aw1X0 — Curious Curator

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TIL that air conditioning was originally created to keep moist air in a printing plant from wrinkling magazine pages.

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lo1EN TIL: Much of Earth's water is older than the Sun, and come from deep space.

6EmDZ TIL that Ishi is known as the “last wild Indian” in America. He lived most of his life outside modern culture after his tribe, the Yahi (of the Yana group) became extinct in the late 1800s because of the California Gold Rush. He lived alone in the wilderness after his family died.

0dQ6p TIL that Susan Finnegan was the first female head of the arachnids section at the Natural History Museum, London, but had to resign from her job to marry.

QNMDk TIL Tipping in the United States became popular in the late 19th Century due to restaurant owners refusing to pay Black workers after the ratification of the 15th Amendment.

rNRgW TIL about facial scarification practice that was common in Nigeria to mark children's identity, symbolise reincarnation, protection or beauty.