Post * N79Jb — Curious Curator

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TIL North Korea has trillions of dollars of minerals and rare earth elements in its earth reserves, but cannot exploit these deposits as the country cannot afford the infrastructure and technology to do so.

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gMgVb TIL of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the Union army during the US Civil War.

b94K7 TIL Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos were both abandoned by their biological father as children and refused to meet them once they were adults.

yVQYl TIL that the most serious and gravest Crime in the United Kingdom is High Treason - i.e: disloyalty to the Crown, or any attempts to deprive the Queen of her crown and undermine the line of succession to the throne.

7dnp TIL : In 1992, Michael Jordan was the ambassador of Nike but his team was sponsored by Reebok so his uniform had a Reebok patch on the right shoulder.Jordan carried an American flag on his right shoulder to completely hide the Reebok logo proclaiming that “The American flag cannot deface anything.”

ADWNg TIL: The film "The Hobbit" caused as many as 27 animals deaths during production. One horse had the skin and muscles of her leg torn off by wire fencing, several chickens were mauled to death by unsupervised dogs, and one horse was hobbled and left on the ground for three hours.