Post * 4brJ — Curious Curator

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TIL that between 1924 and 1925, 5.26% of the US population or 6 million people were members of the KKK.

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9VYX TIL Many migraine sufferers experience after effects such as lack of energy and mental fog, which is called the “postdrome”.

wMgY TIL Australian government is planning to kill 2 million cats to prevent extinction of other species.

QJrZL TIL The word sepia comes from the Mediterranean Cuttlefish, a type of squid whose dark brown ink was used by classical civilizations. The name of this squid thereafter comes from the Greek ''sepein'' meaning: to rot. Most likely from the way the fish dirties the waters with its ink.

YpbM7 TIL that after the introduction of Chlorpromazine, the first ever antipsychotic, psychiatric hospitalization went down from 560,000 to 193,000 twenty years later.

4Grb TIL David Bowie could barely perform his broadway show in NY, The Elephant Man, the day after John Lennon was shot because there were three empty seats in the front row. Two belonged to John and Yoko. The third was Mark David Chapman’s, Lennon’s killer. Bowie was suppose to be next on his list.