Post * XjP8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Tin foil hats actually boost receptivity to government signals

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XExn8 TIL that out of all the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan is the deadliest because of it's unpredictable weather and abnormally high number of rip currents

P1jlZ TIL At the peak of its popularity, the South Sea Company stock price went up from £100 to £1000 within a year, even though nobody knew exactly what they were investing in. Although he mocked people who invested in the scam, Issac Newton owned £22,000 in stock(over 4 million in 2025 values)

9aG7 TIL that it was common for prisoners in the Soviet Union to tattoo Marx, Lenin, and Engles over their vital organs, because the firing squads could not shoot images of the USSR’s founding fathers.

pe9G TIL that there was a 15th century German knight who had an iron prosthetic arm and lived to the age of 82. His name, pronounced in English, was Guts.

0JQy TIL a sect of judaism, Neturei Karta opposes Zionism and calls for a peaceful dismantling of the State of Israel, in the belief that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Jewish Messiah.