Post * 1aoaP — Curious Curator

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TIL Many Native American's don't like being called Native Americans.

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Yp8QG TiL Chinese courts convict more than 99.9% of defendants

yQKNe TIL of a highly effective treatment for soldiers with PTSD. EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Z8POG TIL The letter Q is the only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name.

EgYbp TIL about the void that forms under certain trees when it snows, called tree wells. The upper branches of the tree prevents snow from falling below it, creating a pocket that is a serious peril for skiers & snow boarders. Several die every year from falling head first into these voids.

gMpBL TIL that the likelihood of a monkey typing Sharespeare's play Hamlet is so small that if every proton in the observable universe were a monkey randomly typing at 400 words/min, they would likely only get the first 79 letters correct in the first 14 billion years.