Post * m11E — Curious Curator

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TIL that there’s 21x as many words which break the “i before e, except after c”-rule as obey it

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YpoGW TIL that in State v. Linkhaw, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who sang so badly in church that a jury had found him guilty of "disturbing a religious congregation."

yQXke TIL the Alabama State Capital building is located on the same plot of land as the "First White House of the Confederacy," inhabited by Jefferson Davis in 1861 when Montgomery, Alabama was the Confederacy's interim capital

AN0Po TIL the way the sun "gives" people vitamin D is by converting cholesterol in the skin to vitamin D.

wLMM8 TIL an Algerian Muslim saved over 500 Jews and Resistance fighters during WWII by providing false papers stating they were Muslim.

awYkN TIL of Toregene Khatun, the Great Khatun and regent of the Mongol Empire from 1241 to 1246. Never before, or since, has such a large empire been ruled by woman. During that time there were women on almost every highest positions in the empire. Surprisingly, none of them had been born Mongol.