Post * N7JN — Curious Curator

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TIL Ukraine wants to ban SpongeBob and other television shows because he’s “gay”

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M7Xra TIL that the US Government spends billions of dollars to keep the Mississippi River from changing course and destroying New Orleans

vPlAx TIL that although Motorhead frontman Lemmy was an avid gambler, he preferred slot machines. However, when writing the song “Ace of Spades,” he realized that he couldn’t make a song about spinning wheels with pictures of fruit on them, so he sang about cards and dice instead.

786YX TIL only about 10% of actively managed large cap funds have beaten the S&P 500 over the past decade, meaning 90% of people who paid wealth managers would have been better off just throwing everything into the most popular index there is

woljE TIL of an attempt to establish the first English settlement in America in 1587 -- before Jamestown -- called the Roanoke Colony. When a ship visited the settlement in 1590, the town was found deserted with the word "Croatoan" carved on a post. The whereabouts of the 117 colonists remains unknown.

WV5L TIL that due to the “welfare cliff”, a single mother of two is better off with a $29,000 per year job than she is with a $69,000 per year job.