Post * dpM8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Warren Buffet has won a $1 million bet for 6 out of the last 7 years that the S&P 500 will beat a famous hedge fund portfolio return’s

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8eExZ TIL South Africa is the first country to voluntarily dismantle its own nuclear weapons it had developed itself

vBLR TIL The First person in Britain to be eaten by a Tiger was a Barmaid in 1703

VJe0 TIL that school teacher Gail Wise was the first ever purchaser of a Ford Mustang, paying $3419 for it in 1964 and becoming “the coolest teacher in school that year”. She still owns the car & it’s done 68000 miles.

dpjQ TIL those weird times when you learn some new random or obscure piece of information and then proceed encounter it all over the place or run into it conversation soon afterwords does in fact have a name: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.

ADQOl TIL that the Indian Government banned the use of Dolphins for commercial entertainment, calling them ‘non-human persons’, and declaring that it would be morally unacceptable to capture them for entertainment.