Post * XQWj — Curious Curator

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TIL that an $80 worth of coca leaves, from a Colombian peasant, can sell for $800 as coca paste, $2,147 as pure cocaine in Colombian ports, $34,000 just over the US border, and $120,000 on the streets of New York.

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8alGG TIL of Zhang Jingchuan, a Chinese mountaineer who survived a taliban execution at a 13,000-foot base camp. He knocked an attacker, hid barefoot in his underwear for an hour in a ravine, snuck back in a tent to get a jacket and a satellite phone, hiked to safety and called the local emergency line

Z8Y8o TIL that the Japanese earthquake in 2011 increased the Earth's rotation speed, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds.

KOp79 TIL St. Marina the Monk was a crossdressing Catholic saint who joined her widowed father in the monastery. "Brother Marinos" was accused of impregnating a girl, and rather than reveal her sex to save face, humbly let herself be cast out and supported the child like a father.

JvDv TIL the BB gun company Daisy originally manufactured windmills, and included a complementary BB gun with each windmill purchase in order to promote sales. The guns became so popular that the company stopped selling windmills and started selling BB guns.

k0NE TIL that the Labrador Retriever was bred in Newfoundland, and the Newfoundland dog was bred in Labrador.