Post * 960Q — Curious Curator

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TIL In North Korea’s version of basketball, a dunk counts as three, you get an extra point on a three pointer that doesn’t touch the rim, eight if you score in the last three seconds, and -1 for a missed free throw

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8ao94 Today I learned that George Jetson was born in 2022. Welcome to the future.

neEPr TIL female psychopaths appear to be more prone to promiscuity than male psychopaths, and while they.prefer to date non-psychopathic men in the short-term, for long-term relationships they tend to look for a fellow psychopath.

4kLW5 TIL that Post first made Pop-Tarts, as the company had invented a process for dehydrating food and enclosing it in foil to keep it fresh, and they were called Country Squares. Because Post had revealed Country Squares before they were ready for market, Kellogg used the idea and created Pop-Tarts.

R7Nyj TIL: In Australia, a bank note torn in half can be used as a note with half the value. i.e, half of a $10 note can be used as a $5 note.

0w6W5 TIL Ted Bundy returned to a crime scene the morning after he had abducted and killed a student, Georgann Hawkins, in order to retrieve some evidence. There, in the midst of a major investigation, he took her earrings and one of her shoes from an adjoining parking lot, and left, unobserved.