Post * aXlZ — Curious Curator

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TIL there are ~ 2 million children under slave labor in the chocolate industry.

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m114v TIL the ending of the Invader Zim episode “Walk of Doom” was changed because Nickelodeon was concerned that a sign that said “Welcome to Mexico” may have been offensive.

P14NE TIL of Rene Lima-Marin, a Colorado inmate who was mistakenly released in 2008, 90 years early from a 98-year sentence. After six years of rebuilding his life with a family and steady job, he was returned to prison in 2014, raising issues of fairness and rehabilitation.

b9Vpj TIL housewives in India own 11% of the world's gold. More than the reserves of Switzerland, Germany and the United States put together

0YNj TIL that Catholic monks in Germany 700 years ago were surviving Lent by drinking only bock. They felt guilty that it tasted so good, brought some to the Pope. On the long, hot journey to Rome it spoiled, so the Pope found it tasted horrible and deemed it “excellent Lenten penance.”

KY9rQ TIL that a year after he accidentally solved two famously unsolved statistical problems by mistaking them for homework, George Dantzig's same two proofs were accepted as his thesis; his 'unsolved problem' story loosely served as the setup for the plot of Good Will Hunting.