Post * N7opQ — Curious Curator

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TIL about the Peter principle, where people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence"

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e8bk TIL that a beer company developed edible six-pack rings that marine life or humans can eat

dDEyZ TIL - Germany is on a list of countries that the USA monitors for currency manipulation

8aDQX TIL: Dorothy Hodgkin was the only British Woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She battled arthritis since her late twenties, raised three children and survived a war. A Royal Society Fellowship was set up in her name to help women who wanted to be both career scientist and raise children

nal9 TIL It is impossible to drive from Central America to South America due to the Darién Gap, a 99 mile long area that spans across the border between Panama and Colombia where there are no roads but only mountains and swampland.

VbaZ TIL during WWII, Dutch railroad workers went on strike to undermine the German war effort. In response the Germans blocked food supplies to the country, resulting in a famine that killed over 20,000