Post * GArRG — Curious Curator

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TIL Jim Morrison very likely died from the same overly pure heroin that killed Janis Joplin - provided by the same dealer, Jean de Breteuil.

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ANWM7 TIL that in 1684 Henry Morgan the "privateer" successfully sued the publishers of the books on piracy in the Caribbean for libel; as a result, the description of Morgan using nuns and monks as human shields were purged from subsequent British editions of "History of the Buccaneers of America"

W7xro TIL in Italy there is a movement that has been compared to fairtrade, that markets brands and venues as anti mafia and not paying the extortion money, especially in areas hit hard by organized crime

9w6a7 TIL there is a type 3 diabetes that is severely under-diagnosed. It is linked to problems with the pancreas specifically.

aVyM TIL Microsoft tested cross platform play between the Xbox and PC platforms. It was cancelled when the Xbox players got crushed every time due to a mouse being more accurate and faster than a controller.

P11wg TIL that Appalachia, long portrayed as uniformly settled by the Scot-Irish and solely inhabited by poor working class Whites, has for centuries had an African American population that in some cases amounted to 25% of Appalachian inhabitants, an omission that manages to stereotype both races.