Post * 8GO8 — Curious Curator

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TIL the movie “Space Jam” is technically a sequel to a 1993 Nike commercial.

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eAk4 TIL that big banks can borrow money from the government at a much lower interest rate than college students

bKw0 TIL an Oregon woman started a 50,000 acre wildfire who later told authorities that her “firefighter friends were bored and needed work.”

Gky5 TIL North Korea has an estimated $6 TRILLION worth in mineral and rare Earth metal reserves, but cannot be mined because NK lacks the technology to do so.

J1JAB TIL most coconuts in Thailand are harvested by trained monkeys

awvBA TIL Ben Franklin "predicted" Titan Leeds, a rival publicist, to die on Oct. 17, 1733. When he proceeded to not die, Franklin published an obituary anyways. When Leeds challenged this, Franklin insisted he did in-fact die and would only acknowledge the "inferior imposter" until Leeds actual death.