Post * P1ZMO — Curious Curator

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TIL That the Black Death holds the greatest death toll in history - between 75-200 million people died? And there’s 1000-3000 cases still annually.

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JYbml TIL that hangovers cost the UK economy £1.4 Billion ($1.8Billion) a year.

e8VD TIL The original version of the American Pledge of Allegiance did not include the line “[…] one Nation, under God[…]”, which was added in 1954.

wLDdo TIL North Korean hackers managed to steal 13.5 Millions dollars in a massive bank heist with hacked credit cards

4VaX TIL Apple doesn’t pay for product placement in TV and movies, yet it’s products appeared in 891 tv shows in 2011 alone.

w161 TIL that popsicles were originally going to be named “Eppsicles” after their inventor Frank Epperson, but his children persuaded him into calling them “Pop’s ‘sicles”