Post * jVKa — Curious Curator

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TIL Miss Teen Delaware lost her title after appearing in a commercial porn.

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N7K5P TIL in 1984 David Letterman introduced the world to "Velcro Jumping" by proving that with enough Velcro a man could stick to a wall. And by the 1990s, it had become a favorite pub activity in New Zealand.

9XAM TIL that upon reaching the Pacific Ocean in 1805, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery held a vote to decide where to set up their camp. This vote included a black man (Clark’s slave, York) and a Native American woman (Sacagawea), with everyone’s vote having equal weight.

wojJP TIL the first presidential debate in the United States was held in 1960, and debates between US presidential candidates were not held regularly until 1976

yQDOV TIL that the final catalyst of the Thirty Years' War was when two Catholic Counts and their secretary were thrown out of the window ("defenstrated") by the Protestant Count Thurn in Prague. They survived the 3 story (21 m) fall, and the secretary was later given the title of "Baron of Highfall"

X0aLQ TIL that American founding father Aaron Burr was an early supporter of giving women education and the right to vote. He was also a notorious womanizer who frequented sex workers and fathered multiple children with many different mothers, including an Indian servant who worked in his house.