Post * JYkb1 — Curious Curator

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TIL That Bob Barker was in the Air Force, has a black belt and was trained by Chuck Norris

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xOQ1 TIL Google has found GPA’s and test scores to be “worthless as a criteria for hiring”; they have teams where 14% of their employees haven’t gone to college

9QLm TIL During the horsemeat scandal earlier this year, meat pie from Iceland was tested and was found to contain no meat

BrYBd TIL the country dial-code of the Czech Republic is 420 and the rate of cannabis use there is one of the highest in the world. In 2016, Snoop Dogg was a contestant on The $100,000 Pyramid, and replied without delay that the country code for the Czech Republic is 420.

yRXv TIL an 8 year old boy had his arm bitten off by a shark in Florida in 2001. The boys uncle wrestled the shark to shore, the arm was pried out of the shark’s mouth, and surgeons reattached the limb to the boy after an 11 hour operation.

QNJvk TIL that the US military developed nuclear warheads meant to destroy other incoming nuclear warheads. The small 150 lbs warhead would send a neutron flux that would disable any other incoming warhead. Essentially, they would nuke their airspace to prevent another explosion a thousand times larger.