Post * QJpQ6 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Seth Macfarlane based Stewie's voice on Rex Harrison

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dDK79 TIL about Sati, a medieval practice among some Indians by which a recently widowed woman either voluntarily or by use of force commited suicide as a result of her husband's death. It was considered the highest expression of wifely devotion to a dead husband and was said to purge her of all her sins.

rEBe TIL that US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be “an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time”

kJWWg TIL: After his death, it was revealed that Stan Lee, famous Marvel Comics writer, suffered Elder Abuse from various handlers and family members who alienated him from the other part of his family and fired his accountants, lawyers, and caretakers that have been with him for decades.

VQGQ TIL that in 1973, the Vanderbilts held a family reunion. Not one of the 120 decedents were millionaires at the time

DQExY TIL: 31 US States allow parents to give their kids alcohol