Post * loxNa — Curious Curator

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TIL The songwriter of the 'Catchy Song' from LEGO movie 2 is the same as 'Show Me Your Genitals'

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xVEeD TIL about the American Prairie Reserve, a project initiative that is privately purchasing large swaths of land out in the Great Plains of America and converting it into what will hopefully be the largest nature reserve in the continental U.S.

6E0Dw TIL that in the years following the 2014 UK legislation change to say police won’t pursue shoplifters if less than £200 worth was stolen, and won’t investigate at all if less than £50 was stolen, shoplifting doubled.

JYLX1 TIL the US Secretary of Agriculture is named Sonny Perdue. However, he is not related to Frank Perdue of Perdue Farms.

PYrke TIL In 1941, the NKVD (precursor to the KGB) executed around 100,000 people in the space of 5 months.

VrnQ TIL Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, once walked out of a job interview at the biggest law firm in Paris. “I was told I should never expect to make partnership because I was a woman. I thought to myself: ‘You don’t deserve me, I’m going…why would I work with that kind of attitude?”