Post * kOArE — Curious Curator

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TIL the Cherokee Nation is Entitled to a Congressional Delegate in the US House of Representatives

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nWB89 TIL that commercial airline pilots wear uniforms resembling naval officers because Pan Am established this tradition with its fleet of flying boats. To align with the nautical nature, they adopted naval-style uniforms, a practice continued today

7rDBr TIL about the Fenn Treasure. Allegedly hidden among the Rocky mountains, it has an estimated value of 2 million dollars and 5 people have died looking for it.

4XG7N TIL of Tearoom Trade, where a sociology grad student did his dissertation on men having oral sex in the bathroom. He collected the data by pretending to be their lookout and then found their homes via their license plates, where he would then interview them under the disguise of a different study

4XyeR TIL The man who played McGruff the crime dog was sentenced to 16 years in jail for drugs

OGPQ6 TIL that when crossword puzzles were first introduced to the US, they became an object of cultural hysteria. Newspapers warned of a crossword craze gripping the country's minds. The trend was described as an epidemic, a virulent plague, and a national menace.