Post * DXmV — Curious Curator

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TIL that tough on crime politician, Ernie Preate, was sentenced to prison himself. When he first lined up for diner “It was just a sea of black faces,” Preate remembers “I said to myself, ‘Oh, my God, I helped create this.’”

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ZpA1B TIL after a disease, this man’s memory functions were affected so badly that he can’t retain new memories and can only remember 7-60 seconds of memory before resetting

LprP TIL - Bitcoins were developed by an anonymous software designer who called himself Satoshi Nakamoto. In 2010 he turned over the source code and disappeared. Nakamoto is believed to be in possession of roughly one million Bitcoin. In December 2013, this was the equivalent of $1.1B

Brpex TIL Stephen King kept a severe alcohol and cocaine addiction hidden from his family for eight years. He claims he kept the addiction well-hidden but eventually, "...the books [started] to show it after a while. 'Misery' is a book about cocaine. Annie Wilkes is cocaine. She was my number-one fan."

7ryxM TIL the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group found seven previously unacknowledged massacres from 1967 through 1971 in which at least 137 civilians were killed. The harshest sentence was 20 years but the officer served 7 months.

15Xd TIL that a Colombian football player who scored an ‘own goal’ in a 1994 World Cup match against the US was subsequently murdered as the scapegoat for the team’s upset loss – one of the gunmen shouted “goal!” every time he fired a shot