Post * AO57 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the past two governors of Illinois, and four past governors in four decades, have been sentenced to prison for corruption

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l6DG TIL there is an act written and waiting for support from the American populace to sever the questionable ties between money and politics called the American Anti-Corruption Act (AACA)

VBYD TIL Saudi Arabia developed robotic camel jockeys because too many 4yo slave boys were dying. Child slave jockeys were outlawed in 2005.

0dG5j TIL 35% or 1/3 of the victim of domestic homicides is a male. 31% of women spouses accused of homicide are acquitted whereas only 6% of men spouses are acquitted

N7rXP TIL, in Ancient Egypt, the penalty for killing a cat was death.

9YdXr TIL of Syndrome K: a fake disease that Italian doctors made up to save Jews who had fled to their hospital seeking protection from the Nazis. Syndrome K "patients" were quarantined and the Nazis were told that it was a deadly, disfiguring, and highly contagious illness. They saved at least 20 lives.