Post * PmrG — Curious Curator

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TIL that Steve Jobs wife is the largest shareholder in The Walt Disney Company. She have more shares in Disney than in Apple.

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oB9gR TIL that Russia was founded by a group of Scandinavian vikings and traders, called the Rus, who initially set up trading towns between their home and the Byzantine Empire.

WjJY TIL French film star Brigitte Bardot has been prosecuted 5 times in France for criticizing Islam

KYdEJ TIL - Since 2014, the Saudi company Fondomonte has been pumping unlimited amounts of groundwater in the desert west of Phoenix to harvest thousands of acres of alfalfa crops. The alfalfa is then shipped back to Saudi Arabia to feed their cattle.

GGpQ TIL that a tick bite can cause a lifetime allergy to red meat. The Lone Star tick injects a type of sugar found in red meat into the blood, and causes antibodies to be made that cause an allergic reaction when the person later ingests meat with the sugar.

WkxY9 TIL that although the Maya were already in decay when the Spanish arrived and therefore did not offer much resistance, the location of their civilization centers in the deep jungle made their last city survive until 1697.