Post * aE8J — Curious Curator

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TIL that the more expensive the car, the more likely the driver is to cut off pedestrians and other cars.

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n9rW TIL that there is no nationwide drinking age, each state is responsible for setting their own drinking age. However, the federal government witholds highway funding for states that make it less than 21.

M5mB TIL In the 1936 Presidential Election, Franklin D. Roosevelt won 523 electoral votes, while his opponent Alf Landon only won 8.

erxn TIL drug overdoses from opiods increased 14% in 2014, killing 40,000 people. This is an increase of 137% since 2000. More people die from drug overdoses, says the CDC, than in road accidents: just under 33,000 people died in traffic accidents last year in 2014.

VB6lG TIL Albert Einstein holds a patent for a refrigerator. He created the device after learning a faulty fridge seal killed a family in Berlin. It was rendered obsolete a few years later by the invention of Freon.

j6Z7N TIL that Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Peter Cushing were all a part of London's "Ghost Club," which looked for scientific evidence of paranormal activity.