Curious Curator

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TIL that “runners’ high” is chemically equivalent to smoking pot.

TIL there is an Iraqi version of “Punk’d” where they plant fake bombs in celebrity’s cars.

TIL that unpaid bills can send you to jail in many U.S. states, even though debtors’ prisons have been abolished since 1833.

TIL that according to a professor of economics at New York University, after receiving $600 billion in foreign aid over 45 years, there’s “basically been zero rise in living standards” in Africa.

TIL that Martin Luther King, Jr. considered himself a Trekkie, convinced Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) to stay on the show, and that he told her that “Star Trek” was “the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch.”

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