Post * dZod — Curious Curator

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TIL that all Tabasco Sauce is manufactured in one factory owned by the same family since 1869.

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nWjYG TIL Report: US Life Expectancy Lowest in 25 Years

Mej48 TIL In the '80s, the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21 nationally because Reagan passed a bill in 1984 that required states to raise their drinking age to 21. They don't have to make it 21 per se, but if they chose to opt-out, they would simply be ineligible for federal highway funding.

njaY TIL that King Faisal of Saudi Arabia abolished slavery and freed 1,682 slaves…in 1962.

yYpw TIL People in the final stages of hypothermia engage in “paradoxical undressing” because, as they lose rationality and their nerves are damaged, they feel incredibly, irrationally hot. They strip off their clothes to cool themselves down as they are freezing to death.

VMrxG TIL that in China, Korea, Russia and Mexico, Belgium, Germany and Austria escaping from prison is not illegal.