Post * e0NZk — Curious Curator

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TIL the reason your nose gets stuffy when you cry is because your Lacrimal gland drains your tears out to your nose

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691RJ TIL, from 461 to 468, the Pope Was Hilarius.

mx9Yp TIL Mozart wrote music for an instrument made of glass bowls that Benjamin Franklin helped create

QJVWX TIL of Medgar Evers, an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army and was assassinated in 1963 by a member of the "White Citizens' Council"

7rmYr TIL Rhode Island was incorporated as The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations when it declared statehood in 1790.

1la4 TIL that the concept of a zombie apocalypse is four thousand years old. In the heroic epic about him, Gilgamesh, the mythical king of Uruk spurned the advances of Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. She became enraged and threatened to “raise the dead who will outnumber the living and devour them.”