Post * XERlQ — Curious Curator

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TIL The actor who played Chozen from Karate Kid 2 now owns a restaurant and has a freaking amazing tv commercial.

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l7N5B TIL there are more mattress stores in the US than Starbucks locations

9JnB TIL Praying mantises rarely eat their mates in the wild; it primarily happens in captivity under stressful conditions.

xV7o7 TIL In 2016, Manchester United canceled a game and evacuated the stadium after a steward discovered a pipe bomb in the bathrooms. Fortunately, the bomb was a fake; it had been left there by the security team during a training exercise and forgotten.

a8Op9 TIL that the Wolf of Wall Street, a movie about a financial fraud, was funded by a fraudster named Jho Low who stole $750 million from Malaysia. Jordon Belfort, the man depicted in the movie, claimed that he suspected Jho of having stolen the money.

gAkL TIL During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England.