Post * WLeA — Curious Curator

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TIL that China harvests the organs of people whom it considers “enemies of the state” sometimes while the victims are still alive and sells the organs on the black market.

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697o8 TIL, That Rumi, the famous love and mysticism poet, was actually a Muslim scholar, and it was only after meeting. befriending and sudden disappearance of a man named Shams, that caused such sorrow for him that he wrote more than 3000 sonnets and 40000 verses tributing to him.

R7ZN7 TIL that Shaquille O'Neal only made one three-point shot during his entire career.

Z8nLo TIL about a Confederate sabotage device called a coal torpedo, which was a bomb designed to look like a lump of coal and meant to cause a steam ship's boiler to explode

OGYk7 TIL more than 45,000 people bought fake cell phones and antennas for their cars as a false status symbol in the 80s

VMJeG TIL that the heist in Die Hard with a Vengance was so plausible that the FBI questioned the screenwriter leading to the Federal Reserve changing their security protocal.