Post * d8r17 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Yakuza is the second largest criminal organization in the world (by revenue), despite Japan being ranked 11th in worldwide population.

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y1jV TIL an online gamer mortgaged his irl home to purchase a virtual property in the Entropia Universe for $100,000. He later sold the same property called “Club Neverdie” for roughly $635,000.00.

Kmw TIL There is a insect called the tree lobster that almost went extinct due to rats from a shipwreck on the on the island where they lived

XEZYr TIL about Thurl Ravenscroft, the man who voiced Tony the Tiger in the Frosted Flakes commercials ("They're g-r-r-r-eat!") and was the uncredited singer of the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch".

ep5Vk Today I learned that you can eat packing peanuts. (And I did)

JRol TIL that in 1947 James Hanes of the Hanes brand, helped to sterilize over 7,600 people in North Carolina because they were deemed “unworthy of having children”.