Post * D1NeD — Curious Curator

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TIL that Johnson & Johnson is a holding company for 250 separate, subsidiary businesses

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x6lag TIL of Edward The Black Prince of England who would defeat the French at the Battle of Crecy aged 16, nine years later he would capture 50 French towns during a raid, when the French refused to meet him in battle.

1anYD TIL that for over 100 years, Canada forced many Indigenous children to attend Residential schools away from their families years at a time. The quality of instruction was sub-par, many children were physically, sexually, and mentally abused, and at least 4000 children died in the school system.

kJOag TIL nearly the entire 1977-1978 University of Evansville basketball team died in a plane accident. The one team member not on the plane died in a car accident two weeks later.

Jdmv TIL a 17 year-old online serial scammer was killed when one of his victims mailed him a pipe bomb.

kOAN4 TIL The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.