Post * dZod — Curious Curator

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TIL that all Tabasco Sauce is manufactured in one factory owned by the same family since 1869.

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de8Q TIL Reddit is owned by one of the largest media companies in the world, Advance Publications, which owns Conde Nast (~20 major magazines), the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, over 40 newspaper companies, and more.

W9N9 TIL that Porygon, from Pokémon, is spelled that way to reflect how Japanese people pronounce the “L” sound as an “R” sound. (So, Porygon is really Polygon).

R7WeQ TIL a common misconception in Miranda rights is that you are “off the hook” if your rights are not read to you. Another misunderstanding is that police are required to Mirandize a person; this is NOT the case. Mirandize a suspect is only required if they intend to interrogate that person in custody.

5e8Q TIL Jim Carrey’s family was so poor that he quit school at 15 to support them by working as a janitor. He carried a baseball bat in his janitor’s cart because, “[he] was so angry [he] just wanted to beat the heck out of something.”

7r5rL TIL that when nazis invaded Greece, the staff of the Archaeological Museum in Athens buried all statues and artifacts in concrete fortified trenches stretching from the basement. The nazis found an empty museum. No one gave away the secret.