Post * GYKA1 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1996, as a loss-leading tactic, British supermarkets competed so heavily on the price of baked beans that one store decided to sell them for MINUS 2p. This period is referred to by economists as The Bean Wars.

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QNeAe TIL: Scar turns into angry Pooh at the end of “Be Prepared” - Jim Cummings takes over the vocals from Jeremy Irons near the end (~2:37 in this video) and all I hear now is evil Pooh

rN6xx TIL that Melbourne, Australia has the largest Greek speaking population in the world outside of Greece and Cyprus. Melbourne is sometimes referred to as Greece’s ‘third city’ after Athens and Thessaloniki.

8a7Zb TIL At 8 years old, during a chicken dinner with family,Jeffrey Dahmer expressed a curiosity to his father of how to bleach chicken bones. His chemist father was proud of his son’s scientific curiosity so he showed him how to safely bleach and preserve the bones, which he later used on his victims

WOj4 TIL that when the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from first walking on the moon, in accordance with the recently passed Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law, the astronauts were placed in quarantine for fear that the Moon might contain undiscovered pathogens.

P1KkO TIL that a monkey named Jocko Flocko was the co-driver for stock car racer Tim Flock for 8 races in 1953. Two weeks after becoming the only NASCAR-winning monkey, Jocko was euthanized after getting out of his seatbelt and hit in the head with a pebble during what became his final race