Post * 0rWN — Curious Curator

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TIL Offenders convicted of murdering white females were more than 14 times more likely to be sentenced to death than were offenders convicted of murdering black males

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10br TIL there was a drug made in the 1920s for alcoholism that would cause the effect of a hangover directly after drinking alcohol.

xVGYg TIL about Letterlocking, which is how you would keep correspondence secret, without a wax seal, before envelopes had been invented. Lots of intricate folds and creases

jNXwv TIL that Kristen Bell was the voice of Gossip Girl

99kM TIL there is a city in the Caspian sea built ontop of sunken oil tankers.

06OL TIL In 2012 a biotech startup succeeded wildly in turning seaweed into ethanol biofuel but went bust because seaweed is worth almost twice as much as ethanol