Post * 4k1R6 — Curious Curator

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TIL Some caterpillars survive by pretending to be bird poop. Nature is wild

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kJGag TIL that US Election Day was chosen as a Tuesday in November in 1845 to making voting as easy as possible for the American 19th century farmer. After the Fall harvest, before the Winter snow, with enough time for travel to the polling place and back home without missing Sunday Church.

5VPeD TIL a 2020 analysis found that approximately 1.8% of physicians were responsible for half of the roughly $83.3 billion paid out in malpractice lawsuits that were reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank over a 25 year period.

wvVJ TIL John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop “drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes”. When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.

dDKmE TIL During the 20th century TV series that reached 100 episodes were generally preferred for syndication, since that meant stations could run 20 weeks of programming without repeating a story. In recent years that number has fallen to 88 episodes.

neEG7 TIL then-candidate Richard Nixon sabotaged a peace deal that would have ended the Vietnam War because he thought an end to the war would have turned the 1968 election in favor of Democrat Hubert Humphrey.