Post * 71lP — Curious Curator

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TIL Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, been jailed 40 times and survived four death sentences. He said that he felt at home in Africa as “food was scarce there too and everyone was also barefoot.

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J1b1m TIL that absinthe consumption was so prevalent in France, and debilitating, that France's insane asylums more than doubled (57%) their populations in ten years chiefly due to "The Destroyer, "Green Demon," "Green Fiend," "Green Peril, "Green Damnation," "Green Terror."

R7bAw TIL that filmmaker James Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible on March 26, 2012. He is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever.

4NbX TIL During a 12 month trial of police wearing video cameras in Rialto, CA the use of force dropped by 60% and complaints against officers dropped by 88%

v7g4 TIL a recalled obesity drug, fenfluramine, had a remarkable effect on a boy with autism. Before taking fenfluramine, Joshua’s I.Q. was so low it could not be measured. After, he was able to read and do maths at a 4th grade level.

jNRdn TIL In 2013, Apple banned an app from the appstore for having the potential to damage a user's device. This app was called, "Send Me To Heaven". The premise of the game was, the user would throw their iPhone into the air as high as possible. The creator wanted to destroy as many iPhones as possible.