Post * kxoB — Curious Curator

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TIL that Mark Wahlberg committed vicious hate crimes, including harassing African-American children by throwing rocks at them and shouting racial epithets and permanently blinding a Vietnamese man in one eye.

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PDyJ TIL Sunscreen SPF is a very nonlinear metric. An SPF of 15 blocks 93% of incoming radiation, SPF 30 blocks 97%. SPF 50 blocks only 1% more than SPF 30, at 98%.

eGwE TIL that in 2002, a high school student ‘inspired by 9/11’ flew a stolen Cessna plane into the Bank of America building. He was the only casualty.

7roY7 TIL that in 2012, a Cleveland woman arrested for a traffic infraction was ordered to stand for 2 days holding a sign that read "Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus."

6EomY TIL of Eva Umlauf, a Jew who arrived in Auschwitz at the age of two in 1944. Despite her young age, she was tattooed with her camp number: A26959. Getting it was so painful, that she passed out. Her mother was a digit lower. Eva thinks she was the youngest child to have been tattooed who survived.

GYv94 TIL about the Kindertransport, an organized rescue program for Jewish children that was supported by the British government in the months leading up to World War II. Nearly 10,000 Jewish children were taken in, many of whom were the only members of their families to survive the Holocaust.