Post * E1jG0 — Curious Curator

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TIL, South Korea is the world leader in internet connectivity. Approximately 95.1% of the country’s population are internet users, and they boast the world’s fastest average connection speed. The government established policies and programs that facilitated the rapid expansion and use of broadband.

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E1NWV TIL that in 1975 David Bowie and Dennis Hopper broke into a psychiatric ward wearing spacesuits to deliver cocaine to Iggy Pop.

b9yDQ TIL Earthquakes on Mars are called Marsquakes.

OG5kg TIL that "Jews for Hitler" was a real organization. It was called the Association of German National Jews. It was disbanded after the Nazis came to power and its founder was sent to a concentration camp.

rNk6d TIL that in Speed 2 the scene where the ship crashes into the island was made with a non-animated partial boat crashing into the real island, and was the most expensive stunt ever filmed at $25M in 1997.

m6Bx TIL of Kalief Browder, arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed, who spent 3 years at the Rikers Island prison without being convicted of a crime (2 of which was in solitary) and without seeing a trial. He committed suicide after his release.