Post * Jr91 — Curious Curator

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TIL Japan has the largest organised crime group in the world called Yamaguchi Gumi that is worth $80bn .By contrast, Sinaloa, Mexico’s largest drug cartel, was worth $3bn.

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PYX8O TIL Super-Bowl winning coach Hank Stram offered NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain a contract to play for the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1960s.

KOGpa TIL in 1936, Cleveland lost the largest book in the world. The 'Golden Book of Cleveland' was 7 feet by 5 feet and 3 feet thick, with 6,000 pages — nearly the size of a queen-size bed. It weighed roughly 2.5 tons.

a8kQZ TIL "zoanthropy" is a psychological pathology wherein a person believes that they are a type of non-human animal. E. G. "clinical lycanthropy", the belief that they turn into a wolf.

vPO4L TIL that a dungeon in the Vienna Hofburg Palace was used to confirm quantum entanglement

xVdrD TIL Bob Marley’s dad was a white British naval captain who impregnated local teenagers, and one of them was the mother of the legendary Bob Marley.