Post * KObpE — Curious Curator

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TIL During the second northern war, a historically cold winter froze the water in between Sweden and Denmark. Denmark assumed Sweden would wait for spring to attack. Instead, the Swedes marched their army across the frozen ocean and crushed them, taking a lot of land that they still own to this day

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p8j9O TIL there was a 90’s cartoon called ProStars that was about Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky and Bo Jackson using gadgets to defeat bad guys

LVXP TIL that kid computers in the 80’s to mid 90’s came with BASIC computer program training, because people worried that every citizen needed to know computer programming or they would be left out of the computer revolution.

pMMe TIL up to 40% of tuna imported to the U.S. from Thailand is illegal or unreported, followed by up to 45% of Pollock imports from China, and 70% of salmon imports.

Lb9r TIL that members of the Russian Mafia would tattoo of Lenin, Marx, and Engels on their chest or vital organs because firing squads could not shoot images of USSR’s founding fathers.

rGPM TIL someone actually raised his son to speak Klingon as a first language. The boy ultimately stopped responding to his father, forcing him to abandon the “project” after 5 years.