Post * b6107 — Curious Curator

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TIL a Tsar’s nephew may have accidentally caused the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history

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xV7RD TIL that New York once banned women from smoking in public to “save their souls.”

R5Pl TIL, the state of South Carolina executed George Stinney Jr., a 14 year old boy, youngest executed in the United States ever, with just a confession that may have been coerced with ice cream.

9w8AQ TIL that scientists have discovered doing simple calf raises while sitting at your desk can raise your metabolism for hours.

x6Ln5 TIL that after Terry Jones filmed the 1996 adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" with live actors, the US distributor essentially ignored it. Eventually, Jones heard that the film was being shown in 1 US cinema; when he went there, he found out that it was a pornographic cinema.

p8kmG TIL there's a hobby called magnet fishing where people use rare earth magnets attached to ropes and throw them into rivers and other bodies of water to pull up metal objects and they often find weapons