Post * d8bWZ — Curious Curator

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TIL that Red Cloud, a Chief of the Lakota, was the only American Indian in the West to win a war against the US, inflicted the largest military defeat suffered by the US on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and was the most photographed American Indian in the 19th century.

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KJEE TIL in WWII the Japanese sent over 9000 “Fire Balloons”, carrying varying payloads of bombs across the pacific to the United States through the use of a jet stream. An estimated 900 of these balloons are believed to have reached North America.

wLWvE TIL that some of the boulevard medians in Milwaukee, Wisconsin have 8-10 ft deep bunkers with toilets in them, originally installed in the 1930s as a convenience for city workers who were out and about all day without access to a toilet

X0ZpP TIL Vanessa Carlton’s song A Thousand Miles is most likely about Glenn Howerton.

wLaA1 TIL Blondie’s ‘Rapture’ (1981) is credited as the first rap song to ever top the US charts

rNXx1 TIL that the loud noise a bullwhip makes, is the end of the whip breaking the sound barrier by reaching supersonic speeds