Post * 8ewa — Curious Curator

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TIL that the first actor to say “Goddamn” on Broadway had to turn his back on the audience, as saying it whilst facing them would have been “too shocking”

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8a9EL TIL about Keith Cutler, a judge summoned to be a juror on a case he was presiding over. When he applied to be excused from jury service he was initially declined, and was told to write to the resident judge, to which he replied: "I am the resident judge."

G6b1 TIL that a Pidgin language is a makeshift language created when two people who speak different languages want to communicate, whereas a Creole language is a language that was originally a Pidgin but is now spoken among a population as their native language.

gLgW TIL There’s a dwarf village in a remote part of North Korea. It’s created to prevent ‘short people’ from reproducing.

yVJwX TIL about 32% of all traffic crash fatalities in the US involve drunk drivers (with BACs of .08 or higher).

W7XAB TIL Japan during the 60s and into the late 80s was using a coagulant catalyst to treat hemophilia called Fibrinogen Concentrate by pooling plasma from donors. However, due to under-regulation, donors were not screened for diseases like Hepatitis, which resulted in thousands infected