Post * 5VynR — Curious Curator

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TIL that the most famous poem by Zhang Zongchang--a 'warrior poet' who was named Time's 'Basest Warlord'--reads "You tell me to do this, he tells me to do that. You're all bastards. Go fuck your mother."

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b9y9Q TIL that the five-digit zip code didn’t exist until the 60s, wasn’t mandatory until the 70s, and the plus-four didn’t exist until the 80s.

8yYZ TIL Canada has limits on how many coins you can use in a payment until the coins are no longer considered legal tender. (ex: Limit of $25 in $1 coins, $40 in $2 coins)

69mVX TIL That there have been some really bizarre reality TV concepts over the years, nobody was really interested in them though.

JYn4v TIL That on September 11th, 1973, Salvador Allende, the first Marxist to be democratically elected to President of Chile, was overthown in a CIA-backed military coup; a 17 year-long US-backed military junta led by Augusto Pinochet followed, in which thousands of dissidents were persecuted.

JYOg1 TIL, the traditional cowboy look arose from Mexican vaqueros and the word buckaroo came about as a mispronunciation of the word vaquero