Post * m0rO — Curious Curator

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TIL that Richard Nixon is the only former U.S. president to refuse protection from the Secret Service after leaving office. He called the program, which provides lifetime protection to all former presidents, a waste of money.

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JYnnj TIL that a woman mistook some cheese for cocaine and so she hired a hit man to kill a house full of people to steal it. The hit man then turned out to be a cop.

mxlEx TIL a UFC fan happened to get fighter Rory MacDonald’s old cell phone number and was selecting Rory’s walk out music via text messages without Rory or the UFC finding out for years.

MexP8 TIL The "wine key" style corkscrew was originally called a "wine key" because it was invented by a German man named Karl Wienke

p88yO TIL that those of us who can throw our vision into and out of focus at will are actually contracting and relaxing tiny 'ciliary bodies' inside our eyes which distort the shape of the eye's lenses

wLBmo TIL in pre-20th century European culture, red hair was commonly identified as the distinguishing negative Jewish trait. During the Spanish Inquisition, all those with red hair were identified as Jewish; and writers from Shakespeare to Dickens would identify Jewish characters by giving them red hair