Post * XERYj — Curious Curator

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TIL of Lucky and Flo, two Labrador Retrievers who were the first animals trained to detect optical discs by scent, in order to sniff out DVDs. After a raid on a bootleg DVD ring in Malaysia, reports said the dogs were now targeted by the DVD pirates and that a bounty had been put on their heads.

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16R9r TIL that the Nobel Peace Prize comes with almost 1 million USD

looKN TIL Jamaica is the only country flag without red, white or blue.

nWX8d TIL that when gangster Johnny Torrio left for Europe in 1925 and handed over his criminal empire to Al Capone, it was worth $1,169,184,000 a year in today’s money.

Bgawd TIL about jurist David S. Terry, who killed his former friend, Senator David Broderick in a duel, and 30 years later attacked his successor as Chief Justice of California, Stephen J. Field, who was on the Supreme Court.

D1wDD TIL of the 1925 Shakee Massacre, where over a hundred peaceful Chinese protesters were gunned down in Guangzhou, China. The perpetrators were not punished and refused to even apologize.