Post * QyGp — Curious Curator

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TIL The music most of us think as ‘circus theme song music’ is actually entitled Entry of the Gladiators

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9bpM TIL a skydiver fell at 130 kilometres an hour, but landed on top of a fire ant nest. The stinging from the ants provided adrenaline to her body which kept her alive.

V5mm TIL severing the bridge between the hemispheres in your brain causes the two hemispheres to become separate “selves” with different impulses, desires and capabilities.

X0MJX TIL in 2009 The World Cancer Research Fund warned parents against feeding their children too many ham sandwiches due to the risk of bowel cancer from the processed meat

EOap TIL 18 year old Rukhsana Kauser saw her parents being beaten as part of a forced marriage proposal by a militia commander in Kashmir, she killed one militant with an axe, gunned the commander down, then started a 4 hour gun battle with the malitia

GEWQ TIL that the documentary The Thin Blue Line ended up getting Randall Dale Adams out of the death penalty and freed from prison after 12 years of being wrongly imprisoned. Adams recieved no compensation from the State of Texas. He went on to advocate against the death penalty.