Post * bkx9 — Curious Curator

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TIL prolific writer Harlan Ellison was expelled from college for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability, and over the next 20-odd years he sent that professor a copy of every single story he published.

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rR7a4 TIL that the US has more ICU beds per capita than any other country

rNWBo TIL about Father Alberto Cutié, a Catholic Priest who was host of radio and TV shows in Florida who eventually became an Episcopalian Priest so he can marry a woman he was caught falling in love with.

7GMX TIL: The province of Alberta, Canada has border guards dedicated to keeping rats out. They plant poison and dig up individual burrows. The entire province is rat-free, and rats are only allowed in zoos.

E1RGp TIL that the dollar symbol has its origin in Spain

ROGQ TIL that the recurrent laryngeal nerve in Giraffes is often cited as evidence of evolution, as opposed to the “intelligent design” from God. The lengthy 15 foot nerve takes an inefficient, circuitous route; It exits the brain, goes down and around the heart, then back up to the Giraffe’s voicebox.