Post * RV49 — Curious Curator

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TIL flying has become so safe that you could fly every day for an average of 123,000 years before being in a fatal crash.

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XY4R TIL New York City rioted for over a week in 1922 over when it was socially acceptable to wear a straw hat, similar incidents led to a man being killed in 1924

gMVV4 TIL that the global economic crisis of 2008-10 was linked with at least 260,000 excess cancer deaths

ANkJd TIL about Franca Viola and the fact that in Italy up until 1981 an accusation of sexual violence would lapse if the perpetrator married his victim in what was called "Rehabilitating Marriage"

loOnK TIL of the durian, an Asian fruit. Depending on their genetics, people perceive the fruit as either sweet and delicious, while others find is nauseating. One writer described it as smelling like "pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock."

OG5b6 TIL that China has a higher life expectancy than the U.S.