Post * EEko — Curious Curator

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TIL that at 10 years old Mike Tyson bought $700 worth of birds after robbing someone’s home. He later got into his first fight after someone stole and decapitated one of them.

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8aeVb TIL in the 1980s the Russian medical staff of the Algerian football team gave the players performance-enhancing drugs while playing for their country, without their knowledge or consent. Years later, the children of many players suffer from disabilities and mental health problems.

QJ1a TIL the sequel to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” involves Wonka and the Buckets narrowly escaping death at the hands(?) of vicious aliens in a government-funded space hotel and traveling into Hell (AKA Minusland) to save Grandma Georgina.

7Rpp TIL that Busta Rhymes was the voice actor for Reptar in the Rugrats Movie.

NXVlJ TIL about Merkury Vagin, an 18th century Russian Arctic explorer who was murdered by members of his own expedition after discovering the New Siberian Islands.

x6657 TIL - When Ozone gas was first identified in 1840 its harmful effects were not widely understood - it was associated with fresh air and recuperative properties. In 1882, a businessman coined the name Ozone Park (NY) to promote the area’s proximity to "fresh tonic ocean air".