Post * GlDN — Curious Curator

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TIL that there is a card game in which asking about or explaining the rules is against the rules: “New players are expected to join a game and deduce the rules of play by observation, trial and error.”

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E1vQX TIL the top 3 most expensive skateboards ever sold were a collaboration between Tony Hawk & Ben Harper to raise money for skateparks in low income communities. The highest price paid was $38,425 for a skateboard with the lyrics to "Blowin' in the Wind" personnally penned by Bob Dylan on it.

R7kK7 TIL The most popular type of oranges in the world is called Navel Oranges. They originate from a tree which mutated 200 years ago in Brazil and they are seedless, because the tree is seedless it cannot propagate normally and all navel orange trees are born from cuttings rather than seeds.

bV14 TIL: Pixar, Dreamworks, Disney and LucasFilms, are companies being sued in a class action lawsuit for fraud and wage-theft. The lawsuit seeks to represent “all persons who worked at (the companies) anytime from 2004 to the present"

0571 [TIL] Four months after shooting American Sniper Chris Kyle dead, Eddie Routh confessed “I was just riding in the back seat of the truck, and nobody would talk to me. They were just taking me to the range, so I shot them. I feel bad about it, but they wouldn’t talk to me.”

Me9WA TIL that famous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick only wound up in jail originally because a "friend" was pissed that Mitnick beat him at a $150 bet. | After being bested, Mitnick's then-friend was so angry about losing that he called the FBI and blew Mitnick in.