Post * jplR — Curious Curator

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TIL that an American family tried to live a year without Chinese made goods in which they found it almost impossible. They wrote a book on it.

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BgyDe TIL Canada's "loonie" $1 dollar coin was supposed to show a canoe, but a discount courier was used to save $43.50, and the dies were stolen.

6EmwW TIL of the FFF system of units. For example, the speed of light is 1.8026 megafurlongs per microfortnight.

gYr9 TIL fidgeting (such as tapping your feet or drumming your fingers) can burn up to 350 calories a day and is a common trait of lean/skinny individuals

P1aBn TIL Treskilling Yellow is the only known stamp of its kind in existence. They were supposed to be blue-green not yellow but they made a mistake in the 1850s in Sweden. It was valued at between £1.29 million and £1.73 million before the sale in 2010.

gMEZb TIL of Ranald MacDonald, a Chinook/Scotsman from Oregon Country, who went to Japan in 1848 despite its strict isolationist policy. Risking death, he pretended to be shipwrecked & got captured. While imprisoned, the gov't sent 14 samurai to be his pupils, as he became Japan's first English teacher.