Post * 16MgX — Curious Curator

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TIL North Korea actually dropped communism from their constitution in 2009

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gEB4 TIL, the postage stamp of The Statue of Liberty depicts not the real statue in New York, but the replica in Las Vegas

lyR5 TIL There was once a 50 man pub brawl in a British pub over who would get the last bag of dry roasted peanuts

4kgR6 TIL William Bratton, who popularized the "broken windows theory" to curb crime, is the only person to have led the police departments of the two largest US cities — New York and Los Angeles.

YQR7 TIL That NBA2k16 had to update the game because Stephen Curry’s real 3point range was impossible in the current version

9WKr TIL South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world and a basket case economy in 1960, with a GDP Per capita of $79 (poorer than some African countries). 50 years later, the GDP per capita was over $20,000 and the country is a major world economy.