Post * ne9P9 — Curious Curator

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TIL that one out of six people in the United States has genital herpes. Almost 90% of them - that's more than 48 million Americans - don’t know they have it.

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QJ79p TIL between 1929 and 1932 Ford went from selling 1,507,132 cars in a year to selling just 210,824 of them.

5yyn TIL of the Cleveland Elementary School shooting which took place in 1979 in San Diego, California. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, killed the principal and a custodian, and injured 8 children and a police officer. When asked by a reporter why she did it, she said “I don’t like Mondays.”

1aGdD TIL that male rhesus macaque monkeys will pay to look at pictures of female rhesus macaques' bottoms.

le7K TIL that based off data of each state’s probability of having a natural disaster and their budget for natural disasters Texas ranks as the least safe and prepared.Wyoming and Vermont on the other hand are the most safe and prepared.

m15Wv TIL making the Sign of the Cross is done left to right by those in the Western Christian faiths, such as Catholics, Anglicans, etc., and right to left by the Eastern Christian faiths, like the Orthodox Church and Eastern Rites.