Post * LpDd — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.

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ZowY TIL That the Czech Republic (a country with no official religion) has over 15,000 people who religiously identify as a Jedi Knight. That’s roughly 0.15 of the population.

8ardP TIL that in preparing for D-Day, the Allies fooled Germany into thinking that they would attack Pas de Calais instead of Normandy by creating a phantom army complete with fake landing crafts made from painted canvas and inflatable tanks which they moved over night

GWnN TIL Michael J Fox almost wasn’t casted as Alex Keaton on ‘Family Ties’ because NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff thought Fox didn’t have “the kind of face you’ll ever see on a lunch box”. Years later Fox would send Tartikoff a Marty McFly lunch box, which Tartikoff kept in his office.

Jgmm TIL In 2009 Burger King launched a campaign that if you unfriended 10 friends on Facebook you were entitled to a free whopper. The ex-friend would receive a message explaining that their friendship was less valuable than a whopper.

6RE7 TIL in the 1920s four pythons were shipped from India to the San Diego Zoo. Four live pigeons were included as food, but two survived and zoo keepers were so taken by them they bred them into species prized around the world.