Post * dLxB — Curious Curator

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TIL Slaughterhouse workers are more likely to be violent, and it is believed this is because they have become desensitized to suffering

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DQmdg TIL about Sacheen Littlefeather: An American woman with Mexican ancestry, whose lies about being Native American were discovered after her death at 75.

GApgJ TIL About Operation Underworld — when the US Government and the Mafia Collaborated to stop Nazis

gr9MD TIL one of the inventors of the modern MRI machine first tested it on himself. Dr. Peter Mansfield of Nottingham University went inside the full-sized prototype in 1978, producing the first MRI scan of a live patient

m7JP TIL on the set of the ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ TV show, while the crew was moving a neon-orange mannequin prop, one of the mannequin’s arms broke off revealing it was a human body. The body was identified as Elmer McCurdy, a criminal who had robbed a train and died in a shoot-out with police.

Nw4Q TIL a US Circuit Court decided that Nancy Grace “played fast and loose” with her ethical duties in her lawyer days, and that she “demonstrated her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness.”