Post * Bgxey — Curious Curator

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TIL that two of the three battalions of Fiji's military is on international peacekeeping duty; one in Iraq, and another in Sinai. They are the third largest contributor to Sinai peacekeeping forces and the leading contributor to Iraq's.

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yQy0M TIL in 2009 a man sued Pepsi after finding a dead mouse in his Mt. Dew. They responded by saying that if the mouse had been in the soda since its bottling, it would have dissolved.

YpxQd TIL Nigeria drinks more Guinness than Ireland!!!

wLL6M TIL that Nelsan Ellis, who played Martin Luther King Jr. in Lee Daniels' The Butler, died in 2017 at 39, the same age as Martin Luther King Jr.

rRdOo TIL The first man to climb Nanga Parbat (9th tallest mountain in the world) pushed through the final 4300 feet alone by taking a high dose of amphetamines and drinking tea brewed from coca leaves. He then stood on a ledge overnight before heading down.

E1le0 TIL that a secret underground vault containing the remains of about 800 toddlers was found in an abandoned Catholic maternity home for unwed pregnant women, run by Roman Catholic nuns.