Post * jNRvn — Curious Curator

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TIL 10% of Americans have never left the state they were born. 40% of Americans have never left the country.

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Bg8wr TIL countries such as Brazil, Chile, China, Japan and South Korea use different types of tally marks to ours (US, UK, Australia, etc).

Wkkld TIL In 2006, The FBI planted an informant pretending to be a radical Muslim in a mosque, and the Muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI.

p8LJe TIL the word rooster was coined by English colonial protestants in the 1700s as an alternative to the word cock, in order to avoid the vulgar connotations. Until relatively recent times, this was primarily an Americanism, with most of the English speaking world still using cock for a male chicken.

lv5 TIL - Black Widow bites produce muscle aches, nausea, and a paralysis of the diaphragm that can make breathing difficult; however, contrary to popular belief, most people who are bitten suffer no serious damage—let alone death.

VMQMZ TIL about the "Tetris Effect" in which, after playing Tetris for a long time, your brain begins imagining and rearranging real world objects as if they were pieces in the game.