Post * RKb8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Aaron Burr believed women to be intellectually equal to men and, upon his election to the New York State Legislature, submitted a bill to allow women to vote.

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VJ80 TIL an Anti-Animal-Cruelty Activist infiltrated a Colorado dairy farm, filmed abuse of calves, and turned the footage over to police. The Activist was then charged by police with animal cruelty for not reporting the abuses fast enough.

aw57Z TIL cocktails originated from horses who had their tails docked. In the 1800's they docked tails of horses that were not thoroughbred - 'cocktailed horses'. It later referred to a vulgar, ill-bred person, and finally an 'acceptable diluted alcoholic drink, not purebred, and raised above its station'

RZna TIL that facts don’t win arguments because of something called the ‘backfire effect’ in which “corrections actually increase misperceptions among the group in question.” Since your friend knows you and your opinions well, he or she does not view you as an all-knowing source of information.

QNR6 TIL The question of why manhole covers are typically round was made famous by Microsoft when they began asking it as a job-interview question.

KPNG TIL a US Marines airplane cut through a cable car wire at an Italian ski resort, which caused the cable car to plunge 80 meters (260 feet) to the ground, killing all 20 people onboard. One of the crewmen later destroyed incriminating evidence against himself and the rest of the crew.