Post * e0rdb — Curious Curator

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TIL In 1958 nuclear weapons were proposed as a tool for petroleum extraction. The plan was to detonate 100 nuclear bombs in the Alberta Oil Sands, thus adding heat and decreasing viscosity, the bitumen could then be easily pumped out. The project was put on hiatus due to risk of Soviet espionage.

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rNBk4 TIL that there are 2 Aldi's : Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd. The company was started by 2 brothers in 1946 but it was split in 1960 over a dispute about whether they should sell cigarettes.

r55d TIL a man once said “You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper” before being executed. This is a direct quoute from Bill and Ted

lngB TIL that the first film with a PG-13 rating placed on it was Red Dawn.

wLdk1 TIL- The US government had a secret operation called 'Project Eldest Son' during the Vietnam war. It involved leaving behind thousands of rounds of faulty ammo that would backfire in Vietcong AKs while also leaking fake documents that questioned quality control in Chinese munition factories.

Z8Q4v TIL In a 1915 federal case against "fancy mixed nuts" that were argued by competitors to be an inferior grade, the court declined to accept a trade standard, saying: "...such a vague and indefinite standard... to establish by the testimony of men engaged in the business of handling nuts."