Post * l7JwV — Curious Curator

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TIL that the United Kingdom has an “uncodified constitution”: Rather than a single document serving as the source of its laws, various Acts of Parliament, court cases, and unwritten conventions together serve this purpose.

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9wAMB TIL the annual risk of sudden cardiac death in Black Division I basketball players is one in 5,000. In white players, it is one in 16,000.

EgMkW TIL East Timor can be translated to "East East" as the word "Timor" is Malay for "East." This is an example of a tautological place name; where two parts which sound different are actually synonymous.

nWa4Y TIL radio represents one of the biggest archives of local history from the 20th century

yQ1gp TIL about Leonard Stogel, a music promoter and manager who died in the crash of American Airlines Flight 191. Both his parents had previously died in the crash of American Airlines Flight 1.

WN89 TIL that ‘Black Swan Theory’ is the idea that rare catastrophic events which are beyond the realm of normal expectation or predictability (but later inappropriately rationalized by hindsight) play a vastly larger role in the course of history than any predictable or foreseeable occurrence.