Post * LQllm — Curious Curator

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TIL Andrew Johnson was one of 12 US Presidents to not graduate from college, and the only one to have "no formal schooling of any kind," and Abraham Lincoln, another of the 12, "had only about a year of formal schooling of any kind."

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R7aJ7 TIL the European Union paid €360,000 for a report on the effects of piracy, then hid the report, as it suggested that piracy was generally harmless.

oBJ8K TIL John D. Rockerfeller once had an apprenticeship making $16 per month & his dream as a kid was to make $100,000. His personal fortune ended up being $1.4 billion by 1937 which makes him the wealthiest person in recent history.

gMQab TIL "Comrade Kim goes Flying" is North Korea’s first “girl power” movie and it was screened at numerous film festivals in 2014. The story of coal miner, her dream of becoming a trapeze artist is crushed by an arrogant trapeze star who believes miners belong underground and not in the air

rNWRd TIL: Chewing gum is banned in Singapore because this was used to disrupt MRT trains (Mass Rapid Transit) by sticking it to door sensors.

GYBNN TIL that writer Isaac Asimov and Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry died with six months of each other. Asimov helped saved Star Trek from cancellation by writing a fan letter to TV Guide saying it was a "fresh and intellectually challenging science fiction television show". His daughter was a fan.