Post * PYQMO — Curious Curator

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TIL the birth rate in the U.S. in 2018 fell to the lowest level in 32 years. For perspective, this was lower than in the years after the Great Depression.

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wLQoo TIL when Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court, his rental history was leaked to the press. Bork himself had stated that Americans only had privacy rights as afforded them by direct legislation. The incident led to the enactment of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act.

e0yWg TIL Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting's co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for $1

D6DV TIL George R.R. Martin was an award-winning author decades before he ever became famous, with his first Hugo Award in 1975 and first Emmy nomination for producing the Beauty and the Beast TV series in 1988.

4XMKw TIL about Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawananakoa, America's only princess, the great-grandniece of Queen Liliuokalani

gj6X TIL British pub signs are so colorful and distinct and were originally created to draw in pre-literate drinkers