Post * nWaD9 — Curious Curator

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TIL about the death of 9yr old Stanton Walker. A spectator at a baseball game in Morristown(ohio), he was struck by a foul ball while a knife was passed between his companions for the purpose of sharpening a score keeping pencil. The knife lodged between his ribs and he died in minutes.

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QNPa6 TIL that DRC Prophet, Dominique Khonde, Makes Millions With Aids 'Cure' Juice. The juice is a mixture of gasoline and other ingredients and costs 14€, 1/3 of the average citizen’s monthly salary.

mx10o TIL that the right way of putting on a toilet seat cover is the complete opposite of how i always thought it was supposed to be placed, and it now functions without any splash whatsoever.

e0YxE Istanbul is locking down. But not if you’re a tourist.

KYJGQ TIL that during WWII, women were hired as human computers working in clusters, and the term "kilogirl" was sometimes used to refer to 1,000 hours of female calculation.

9DM TIL the Mythbusters were going to do an episode about the hack and trackability of RFID chips, but had to can the idea when Visa, Discover, American Express, and others threatened to pull all their advertising from the whole of the Discovery Channel Network.