Post * J1Bgl — Curious Curator

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TIL that, according to the FAO, an estimated 119.337.929.000 chickens were slaughtered worldwide in 2021.

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evM4 TIL that in 1976 a Japanese ultranationalist porn actor died after flying a plane into the house of a yakuza don to punish him for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Lockheed & betraying the samurai code

JYG7m TIL that Russians eat ice cream in the winter to be warm

yQMge TIL about an organization with an unconventional definition of Science

9YXr6 TIL that there is a Portuguese messianic mystic belief called Sebastianism in which a child King from the 16th century that vanished in battle will come back to save Portugal in its darkest hour

J1Wrv TIL of Eddie Slovik. Court-martialed for desertion in WWII, he is the only US soldier to be executed for purely military offenses since the Civil War. He said he deserted because prison was better than combat, and anticipated a light sentence. He was executed to deter others from thinking similarly.