Post * NXvob — Curious Curator

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TIL the US federal government wastes 247 billion dollars in taxpayer money each year

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gVQ4 TIL that in 2013, a 15 year old Alabama boy committed suicide after learning he might be placed on the sex offender registry after “streaking” at a high school football game.

oBKbY TIL the New York Yankees baseball team began as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901, before moving to New York in 1903 where the team was re-named the New York Highlanders. The team was not re-named the Yankees until a decade later in 1913.

8aXaX TIL scientists in China found a way to use genetically modified and infertile male mosquitos to wipe out large populations of mosquitos, pave the way of a mosquito-free future for us ????

pYyN TIL that Jelly Belly takes the candy that doesn’t meet their quality standards and sells it for half price

6E5pw TIL during the Space Race, the Soviet chief rocket engineer Sergei Korolev was never referred to by his real name. He was always identified as the "Chief Designer" to avoid a potential assassination attempt by the US. Not even cosmonauts working with him knew his real name.