Post * Agrg — Curious Curator

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TIL that South Africa was largely responsible for the global prohibition of Marijuana in 1925, based on one British doctors racist opinion from 1908 of how it affected Hindu laborers.

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mxBlp TIL that Britain's worst nuclear accident, would have been much worse, were it not for Sir John Douglas Cockcroft. Whom insisted on installing filters onto the exhaust shaft of the Windscale Nuclear Power Plant. When the accident happened the radioactive dust was reduced by 95%.

GYZ61 TIL Great White Sharks Are Completely Terrified of Orcas. A new study shows the apex predators will flee their hunting grounds and won’t return for up to a year when killer whales pass by.

epkOb TIL about the Gaelic Celtic tradition of Keening, a verbal singing and mourning for the dead

VMYP0 TIL George Lucas paid a fine and resigned from the Directors’ Guild because they insisted on a traditional credit sequence for A New Hope and he wanted to start it with the now-iconic opening crawl.

Egoro TIL that within the span of two years, Miranda Cosgrove was victim of two stalkers and the last one set himself fire killed himself on her yard.