Post * QGrE — Curious Curator

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TIL When you measure the test scores of USA schools with a child poverty rate of less than 20%, those kids outperform every nation in the world.

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MeYa TIL Xiang Yu the night before attacking the Qin dynasty burnt all his own boats and cooking equiptment so his troops had no other option but to fight till victory or perish

ENdd TIL the leading cause of death for men under 50 in the UK is suicide

L7xr TIL of Leslie Coffelt, who was killed defending Harry Truman from an assassination attempt. Shot by an assassin 4 times, Coffelt propped himself up against a guard booth and fired one shot, hitting the assassin in the head and killing him. Coffelt collapsed immediately and died four hours later.

R7vYw TIL The meter (metre) was originally defined to be one ten millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator through Paris

Z64B TIL two Satanist gay couples were charged with a misdemeanor after kissing each other over the grave of Fred Phelps’ (from the Westboro Baptist Church) mother.