Post * 690em — Curious Curator

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TIL that a professional grave robber in Cinncinati, Ohio who routinely sold corpses he had dug up to local medical schools once deliberately sold the body of someone who had died of smallpox to a school in order to infect medical students there who had played a trick on him.

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M7oAK TIL Much like Zodiacs in the west, in Korea people look to Blood Types to infer personality traits.

rNdK4 TIL early credit cards were launched in "drops", wherein banks would mail unsolicited cards to tens of thousands of customers at once. The banks then leveraged that customer base to get local stores to accept the cards. Over 100 million cards were distributed before drops were made illegal in 1970.

4k0wg TIL that, of the over 1,000,000 insect species identified, only 5 live permanently on the open ocean. They belong to the Halobates genus, which belongs to the Gerridae family (commonly known as water striders.)

rN4j4 TIL the 2013 El Reno tornado was more than 2.5 miles wide and had multiple vortices in it’s interior moving at speeds of 177 mph across the ground. It is the first known tornado to cause the death of storm chasers, tossing their car 600 feet through the air.

wdLM TIL there is a school in Moscow whose mission is to enable Russian women to snag rich husbands. Part of the curriculum includes “strengthening and toning the muscles using special equipment — a kind of gym for the vagina.”