Post * VMnXk — Curious Curator

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TIL: Slot machines make more money in the United States than baseball, movies, and theme parks combined.

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N71RJ TIL Hasbro, the US kids toy company, once owned Death Row Records, the infamous gangster rap record label

D1d5r TIL a total of 173 people, including 62 children, died in a crush on 3 March 1943, when people rushed to enter Bethnal Green station after hearing air-raid sirens in WWII

4XaP5 TIL NASA was founded about a year after the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, an artificial satellite and the first human made object to ever enter orbit, because it terrified the United States that this would give the USSR significant ground in the Cold War

1yWV TIL that Aki Ra - a former child soldier - has devoted his life to removing landmines, and caring for young landmine victims. He has personally removed and destroyed as many as 50,000 landmines from Cambodia, originally using no more than a knife, a hoe, and a stick

9wdMp TIL elephants are capable of recognizing themselves in a mirror, which is a sign of self-awareness. Elephants were shown a mirror and their reactions were observed. They went through a series of behaviors, including touching their own bodies and inspecting their mouths.