Post * Pd8Z — Curious Curator

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TIL that the FBI uses “scores” of disguised, low-flying surveillance planes in most major cities

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dBvB TIL in 1994, flying home from the U.S., Russian President Boris Yeltsin was scheduled to stop over in Ireland and meet the Taoiseach (prime minister). Yeltsin overslept, so his men claimed he was too unwell to leave the plane and they flew on to Moscow, leaving the Taoiseach standing on the tarmac.

j65ep TIL Europeans used to think tomatoes were poisonous because the acid in the tomato caused their pewter plates to leak lead into their food

j61jX TIL that each prime number (except 2 and 3) is next to a multiple of six.

7rlPr TIL that a man named Paul Brown invented the upside-down squeeze bottle in 1991. He sold his product to everyone from shampoo companies to ketchup companies to NASA, and then four years later he sold his company for $13 million.

WXDX TIL when prison rape is counted, more men are raped in the US every year than women