Post * AD94B — Curious Curator

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TIL A Colombian drug cartel put a $70,000 bounty on a police dog because it sniffed out almost 10 tons of drugs in 300+ operations, leading to 245 arrests.

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rNE7w TIL about the kidnapping of Katie Beers, who was 9 when she was kidnapped by family friend John Esposito and kept prisoner in a bunker underneath his garden from 1992-93. He abused her and planned to keep her there for the rest of her life, but finally confessed after 17 days and she was rescued.

mDGE TIL there is more genetic variety within Africa than the rest of the world combined. In other words, Western Europeans and East Asians are potentially more genetically similar to each other than two Africans are genetically similar to each other

m1Wjx TIL the secret codename of India's first successful nuclear weapon test was "Smiling Buddha."

R7ZB6 TIL about Steve Rothstein, who bought a lifetime unlimited First Class American Airlines ticket for $250,000. That ticket with his flights (listed as being over 10,000) cost the company over $21,000,000. They terminated his ticket in 2008.

kL4d TIL the blades in a Rolls Royce jet engine are so technologically advanced and intricately designed that each blade is roughly worth the price of an average family car.