Post * 9Ywpp — Curious Curator

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TIL that 50-80% of Cali firefighters in the brush are female and male inmates that make about $2/day, yet even after years of experience they can't become firefighters when they are released because CA doesn't hire ex-felons.

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PYK9J TIL about Hemigrapsus estellinensis, an extinct species of crab that lived solely in a small saltwater spring in the Texas panhandle, 500 miles from the ocean. Probably a relic of the Pleistocene Era, the species was wiped out when the U.S. Army built a dike around the spring in 1964.

9Ynk6 TIL an early script for Back to the Future featured Marty hiding in a lead-lined fridge to survive a nuclear blast. It obviously didn’t make it into the final version, but producer Steven Spielberg would later use the idea for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of them Crystal Skull

kOQ4d TIL in mid 18th century Gross National Income per capita (PPP) of countries that today make up third world (Asia, Africa, Latin America) was more than first world (Western Europe, Northern America, Japan, Singapore and South Korea)

G6wN TIL in 2013 the Saudi King Abdullah ordered Khalid Bin Mohsen Shaari, the heaviest person on the planet with a BMI of 204, to be hospitalized for weight reduction. Six months later, he had lost half his weight (320kg).

D7P TIL the US has one of the most efficient and extensive freight rail systems in the world, nearly twice as efficient as the European and Japanese systems.