Post * Rmma — Curious Curator

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TIL Microsoft helped save Apple by buying $150m of preferred Apple stock in 1997. They sold it in 2003 losing out on tens of billions of cash had they held onto it.

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6lxQ TIL Coca Cola has depleted Indian village’s water for 16 years

gr7E4 TIL that Tracey Ullman, whose self-titled show is the show that originally spawned The Simpsons, is the first British woman with her own American sketch show.

690jl TIL the 2006 Securitas Depot Robbery remains the United Kingdom's biggest heist. Close to £53 million was stolen in hard cash - comprised of used and unused sterling banknotes - property of the Bank of England...

xVdy7 TIL of Noble Craig, who, after losing both of his legs and one of his arms while fighting in the Vietnam War, became an actor and starred in horror films as various limbless monsters such as the "Snake Man" and the "Vomit Creature"

doGB TIL there is a tree that legally owns itself and the surrounding land and the land was inherited by its offspring, “The Son of The Tree that Owns Itself”