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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M7bnb TIL that Mars Inc., (yes, the candy company) is the largest owner of stand-alone veterinary clinics in the United States

vPOw4 TIL that the Giant Puffball Mushroom has the the most progeny of any living thing. 7 trillion spores. If each of the spores from two generations produced a mushroom they would have a combined size 800 times the size of earth!

mxXZO TIL After regretting supporting the internment camps, Dr. Seuss dedicated Horton Hears a Who to a Japanese friend as an apology.

Oae4 TIL In 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a Southern California mosque who pretended to be a radical Muslim and the Muslims at the mosque reported him to the FBI.

GA7LN TIL that barnacles were a major problem to old ships and that the 18th-century British Navy gained a great advantage by covering their ships' hulls with copper to stop the barnacles from growing.