Post * Ok4e — Curious Curator

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TIL that the firm formerly known as “Blackwater” and now as “Academi” [sic] deployed 400 Mercs to suppress anti-government protestors in Ukraine during 2014.

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woxw8 TIL about the unsolved 1922 Hinterkaifeck murders in Bavaria, where six family members were killed with a mattock, and the murderer(s) lived on the farm with the corpses for days, feeding animals and lighting fires.

pYA8Z TIL that in Sydney, Australia, wealthy and poor suburbs are separated by a line of chicken restaurants called the "Red Rooster Line"

DQpYD TIL That the hit Nickelodeon show "Rugrats" was not conceived by Nick, but by the founders of the company that animated the show, Klasky-Csupo, based on their own imaginings of what their own young children would say if they could talk.

eEgL TIL that in 1998 CNN ran a false news report, accusing American soldiers of using sarin gas in a rescue mission titled, “Operation Tailwind” during the Vietnam War. The report would later go on to become the basis of a storyline in HBO’s The Newsroom.

6Enwl TIL that in 1975, Sean Connery co-wrote a script for a Bond film called "Warhead". It features Spectre, from a secret base in the Statue of Liberty, launching an attack on NYC. Robotic hammerhead sharks, armed with nuclear weapons, are sent into the city’s sewers to wreak destruction as they explode