Post * Vg74 — Curious Curator

› added 11 years ago

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TIL that only 171,300 tonnes of gold has ever been mined in human history (by comparison, The United States gets 5.6 million tonnes of aluminium a year alone) and that 85% of all gold ever found is still used.

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6xmJ TIL that Johnson & Johnson knew their baby powder product caused ovarian cancer in some consumers, but sold it anyway. A victim successfully sued for $70 million but J&J still maintained that their baby powder was “perfectly safe”.

dDDx7 TIL there are 11 emerging megaregions in the US, with the fastest growing being the Piedmont Atlantic megalopolis, stretching from Birmingham, through Atlanta, up to Raleigh-Durham.

b9ovp TIL that the Russian F.S.B. (formerly KGB) figured out a way to open and then reseal a tamperproof urine specimen jar to cheat in the 2014 winter Olympics.

YpdOB TIL the word "dunce" comes from "Dunses"- followers of John Duns Scotus, a highly respected 13th century Scottish Scholastic theologian and philosopher who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1993.

AxpB TIL Disney hired a convicted child molester to direct their 1995 movie “Powder”. Victor Salva pleaded guilty to oral sex with a 14 year old actor on set of a previous movie.