Post * P5En — Curious Curator

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TIL In Tennessee, ex-felons who have turned their lives around can now receive a certificate of employability, which gives businesses who hire such individuals protection from negligent hiring lawsuits. Law effective 1/1/15

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X4Rj TIL Your nose constantly goes through “nasal cycles” where the 2 nasal cavities alternate being partially congested to enhance your sense of smell and help lighten the workload.

R7VE4 Today I learned that Ed Kemper spent 5,000+ hours over the course of a decade narrating several hundred books on tape for the blind, producing over 4 million feet of tape, as part of a program run in the California Medical Facility State Prison.

OoVEa TIL the B-52 Stratofortress is expected to stay in service until the 2050s, and at that point will have been in service for almost a century.

69VEQ TIL That singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford after graduating summa cum laude from Pomona College

VMd8p TIL a gang of brilliant French thieves used a vacuum cleaner to steal $800K from a bunch of grocery stores. The stores used a pneumatic tube system to convey their cash payments to their safes. They broke in and used the vacuum cleaner to suck the money out of the store vaults.