Post * p8OWZ — Curious Curator

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TIL that Olivia de Havilland, the actress who played one of the main parts in 1939's Gone With the Wind, is still alive at 103 years old.

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d7vr TIL a 2015 literature review by Wayne Hall showed Cannabis use doubled the risk of car accidents, doubled the risk of cognitive impairment and psychosis during adolescence, and had a dependence rate of 1 in 10

PRoL TIL that a town in Newfoundland took in 38 airplanes carrying over 6,600 passengers immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Centers, almost doubling the town population. Despite this, the people of the town worked together tirelessly to care for the passengers for up to 6 days.

OoNWR TIL That Both Kal Penn and Sendil Ramamurthy Were Both Considered For The Role of Kumar in "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle"

N7nNe TIL that the Yoruba people of Nigeria have among the highest birthrates of twins in the world, but that a specific town in the country - Igbo-Ora - produces more twins than anywhere in the world. So many twins are born in Igbo-Ora that the town holds a festival to celebrate them.

eWY4 TIL that a Catholic priest named Michael Clegg first began distributing ecstasy and at its peak he was delivering 500,000 pills to the Dallas area per month.