Post * jBQv — Curious Curator

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TIL an 8ft. LEGO man labeled ‘No Real Than You Are’ washed up on a Dutch beach in 2007. Origins remain unknown.

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MeAw8 TIL about the Pork and Beans war, a confrontation in 1838 between the US and the UK over the boundary between New Brunswick and Maine. No one was killed, but two Canadian malitiamen were injured by bears before a treaty was signed.

b91xa TIL the uneven terrain of Nagasaki served as a natural buffer in the bombing, even though the "Fat Man" bomb had a 23 kiloton explosion yield, which is more than the explosion yield of "Little Boy" that is 13 kilotons, the bombing did not cause as much damage as the bombing in Hiroshima.

Xxy8 TIL The skeleton found by Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly inside the wrong coffin at Sad Hill cemetery, was a real human skeleton. A deceased Spanish actress wrote in her will she wanted to act even after her death.

vwNr TIL that in 1998 one satellite failed and it caused about 80% of the world’s pagers to stop working.

9Yeb6 TIL At the height of their popularity in the 1990's baseball card manufacturers produced an estimated 81 BILLION cards per year. That's about 325 cards per every man, woman, and child in the United States.