Post * wOvW — Curious Curator

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TIL There are more black men in prison today than there were black male slaves pre-civil war.

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4pWR TIL: As to not betray the Hippocratic oath, doctors (also nurses, etc.) are prohibited from administering lethal injections used for capital punishment. The task is left to under trained and unqualified orderlies and technicians, resulting in slip-ups which may lead to extreme pain to the inmate.

9YoR7 TIL the dark meaning of This Little Piggy. “Went to market” (the meat market), “stayed home” (not ready for market), “ate roast beef” (fattening for market), “had none” (too young for fattening)

ADjGd TIL deers are closer evolutionarily to whales than horses

p6X4 TIL Electrons flow through a typical copper wire much slower than a turtle walks

Egnew TIL that when Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment on missing child Nyleen Marshall, they were contacted by a man who thought he might have gone to school with Nyleen. This turned out not to be Nyleen, but a different missing child, Monica Bonilla, who had been abducted by her noncustodial parent.