Post * Zp9OD — Curious Curator

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TIL Coca-Cola's Simply Orange Juice is made by an algorithm known as the Black Book. Oranges are divided by source, type, sweetness, acidity, etc. flash pasteurised and then combined with flavour packages according to the black book algorithm to have a consistent taste countrywide and year round.

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vPeo7 TIL that the closing song, "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", from the movie Dirty Dancing, has been listed as the "third most popular song played at funerals" in the UK

rlxd TIL in 1787 Congress got paid $6 a day that they were in session. Thats about $150 a day with inflation.

kJLod TIL that on Labor Day weekend 1969, in Great Barrington, MA (and a few other Berkshire towns), over 220 + people claimed to have seen a UFO, and three people claimed to have been abducted! At one point, the town even created a monument, and the event was recognized by their historical society!

OG701 TIL about Pocho, a crocodile in Costa Rica who, after being found nearly dead from a gunshot, was nursed back to health by local fisherman Gilberto "Chito" Shedden. They developed an extraordinary friendship, swimming and performing together for two decades until Pocho's death in 2011.

9Yma6 TIL a secret society, the "Knights of the Golden Circle," plotted for the US to annex and enslave Central America & the Caribbean in order to create a massive Slave State empire. The US even had real opportunities to annex more of Mexico, which Northern abolitionists blocked to prevent such plans.