Post * QoaX — Curious Curator

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TIL The world’s largest convenience store (67,000sqft) has 120 gas pumps, 83 Bathroom stalls, and 23 flavors of fudge.

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kJ0W7 TIL that "The Iodine State" was South Carolina's nickname in the 1930s and even on license plates, in an effort to promote the state's vegetables as having more healthy iodine than other other state's vegetables

WPDX TIL Fires are a natural and healthy part of an ecosystem. Wildfire suppression in the 20th century allowed a buildup of underbrush, causing larger blazes later that kill large trees that would otherwise have been unharmed.

R78G9 TIL that Sammy Davis Jr didn’t only overcome racism over being black when he became famous in the 50s. He was one of the first openly bisexual pop singers, he was Jewish in perhaps the most anti-Semitic period in modern American history, and he only had one eye!

XEQPE TIL about A Free Ride, the earliest extant American pornographic movie, from 1915

ADO5d TIL of chess boxing. Alternating between 3 minutes of chess and 3 minutes of boxing until achieving knockout in one of them.