Post * j6ApX — Curious Curator

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TIL that in Japan, Andre the Giant often had to poop in bathtubs because the toilets were smaller than they were in the United States

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LkEpV TIL US Cell Carriers are (and/or were) selling REAL TIME location data without consent to 3rd parties including advertisers and even bounty hunters!

NX7NN TIL about Operation ABSCAM, which was a FBI sting operation carried out in 1980 to trap corrupt politicians. Which included a senator and six congressmen

XrNR TIL L. Ron Hubbard was quoted saying “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be to start his own religion.” years before starting Scientology

0PKj TIL there was an attempted coup d'état in Japan the night before they surrendered to allies during WWII, in an attempt to stop the surrender and continue fighting.

Bg0dx TIL in 1969, a drunk Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea for shooting down a spy plane. Henry Kissinger, his National Security Advisor, got on the phone to the Joint Chiefs and was able to convince them to stand down on that order until Nixon woke up sober the next morning