Post * dDNgB — Curious Curator

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TIL “the average person consumes roughly 20 lbs of (onions) per year”

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wyrP TIL That out of the 238 years that the United States of America has been a nation, 216 of those years has been in conflict or war, which is about 90% of the time.

JdNm TIL John DeLorean, best known for developing the DeLorean DMC-12, also developed the Pontiac GTO, Firebird, Grand Prix, and Chevy Vega. He was arrested for drug trafficking in 1982 trying to raise money for his failing company and successfully defended himself proving entrapment by federal agents.

5KRn TIL that in WWI, the Germans converted liner SMS Cap Trafalgar into an armed merchant cruiser, which they then disguised as the British liner HMS Carmania. Off the coast of Brazil, Trafalgar was attacked and sunk by a British ship. That ship was also an armed merchant cruiser; the real HMS Carmania.

epgR5 TIL For 1 day in February 2018, China's internet censors banned the letter 'N'

5Yr0P TIL of the amazing life of Josiah Henson, who walked 900 miles, with his wife and children, to escape slavery. He founded a colony in Canada and helped 118 others to freedom, and was the inspiration for the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin"