Post * OooZR — Curious Curator

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TIL: You are not supposed to center your food in the microwave

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Zp4OY TIL even though Mike Tyson bit off a part of Evander Holyfield's ear during their title fight in 1997, both became close friends after retiring from boxing, and Tyson was the one who inducted Holyfield into the boxing hall of fame.

xkj0 TIL In 1945, Japanese radar operators detected a small number of incoming US planes (which carried the nuclear bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), but decided not to intercept them as the small number of planes were not seen as a threat.

BgRRb TIL almost 70% of employed Saudi citizens work for the government, and many of those work for less than 1 hour per day.

jN6Dp TIL of the LeMans parody race 'LeMons', a 24h race in cars that can cost no more than $500 and where the penalties are decided by spinning the "Wheel of Misfortune".

R1bj TIL During the “secret war” waged by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1964 to 1973 against communist and nationalist forces in Laos, more bombs were dropped on this rural nation of poor farmers than all the explosives dropped on Germany and Japan in the Second World War.