Post * 6ERWw — Curious Curator

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TIL the first generation of Mexican drug smugglers were Chinese-Mexican opium farmers from Sinaloa

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yxRw TIL of Sergeant Willis Boshears, who strangled and killed another woman while he was asleep. He pleaded not guilty on the basis of being asleep at the time and was acquitted.

bN97 TIL that the word plagiarism comes from plagiarii. In the ancient Mediterranean world, plagiarii were pirates who kidnapped young children, among other misdeeds. When plagiarists claim someone else’s ideas as their own, they steal someone else’s brainchild.

QJdwa TIL that the chemotherapy drug Paclitaxel, used to treat breast cancer (amongst other things) is a plant alkaloid derived from the "Happy Tree"

wL94Y TIL that US president Jimmy Carter issued a state of emergency in 1979 that is still active today, over 40 years later. This state of emergency gives "extra ordinary powers" to the president to "seize property, call up the National Guard and hire and fire military officers at will."

nMbY TIL after the American Civil War, many southeners immigrated to Brazil, where slavery was legal, and formed a comunity that last until modern days, called the “Confederados”