Post * 9w8eQ — Curious Curator

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TIL of WT Stead a pioneering journalist and editor, who led investigations into underage prostitution and Jack The Ripper before eventually dying on the RMS Titanic (whose sinking he had predicted) after giving up his seat in a lifeboat.

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KJO9 TIL that there is another kind of lightning inside thunderstorms, called as “dark lightning” It expels antimatter and radioactive gamma rays.

BJrx TIL of a straight Christian man who spent a year of his life as a gay man, including coming out to his family, getting a job as a barista at a gay café and enlisting a friend to act as his boyfriend. The experience radically changed his view of religion and he now views homosexuality as acceptable.

Z8bDQ TIL, Alice in Wonderland was once banned in China, "Bears, Lions and other beasts cannot use human language"said the governor of the Hunan province in 1931. "To attribute to them such a power is an insult to the human race"

RYL1 TIL Texas Instruments has a near monopoly on the graphing calculator field, with over 90% of the sales. Due to this the base model specs and price have not changed in 10 years.

npW TIL that AT&T has a database known as “Hawkeye” that contains 312 terabytes of data detailing nearly every telephone communication on AT&T’s domestic network since 2001