Post * VBQ90 — Curious Curator

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TIL That Ball Corp, famous for it's mason jars, is the world's largest producer of aluminum beverage cans, producing over 112 billion cans per year.

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epjD TIL Redheads are twice as likely than those with other hair colors to avoid dental care, and require up to 20% more anesthesia than non-gingers

Meo08 TIL the rate of suicide among 10 to 14-year-olds has doubled over the last 30 years.

RZV8 TIL of a monk who had taken an old book written by Archimedes, erased the contents, and wrote over it with prayers. Scientists have determined that that monk erased a previously unknown book by Archimedes, that laid out the foundations of Calculus thousands of years before Newton and Leibniz.

PYDjG TIL of Bijon Setu massacre of 1982, where 16 monks and one nun were killed and then set on fire in broad daylight in Kolkata, India. The crime remains unsolved.

D119D TIL that the founders of Starbucks learned the trade from the founder of Pete's, and that he was later critical of them for not roasting to his high standards of quality.