Post * mXMy — Curious Curator

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TIL that while millions of North Koreans starve, the nation’s rulers have taken up the habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers flown DAILY from China to Pyongyang (on North Korea’s national airline).

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GDxJ TIL If you were to watch every Simpsons episode back to back, it would take you 11 days 13 hours and 30 minutes

YpkX7 TIL, in the early 1990s Willie Nelson had nearly all of his property confiscated and sold by the IRS, for payment of back taxes and fines. His famous guitar, named Trigger, was only saved from sale because his daughter smuggled it out of his Texas home and took it to Hawaii.

BgVND TIL about Arver v. United States, a U.S. Supreme Court decision which upheld the Selective Service Act of 1917. The court held that, citing Vattel's The Law of Nations (1758), a just government has a duty to protect its citizens, which obligates those citizens to render miliary service.

epNO6 TIL philosopher Joseph Levine’s 1983 paper introduced the “explanatory gap” noting while “Pain is the firing of C fibers” is physiologically valid, it doesn’t make us understand how pain feels. Showing the challenge physicalists face in connecting physical properties to subjective experiences.

Egvv7 TIL that Benjamin Franklin left about 1,000 pounds sterling in a trust for Boston and Philadelphia in his will. The money couldn’t be touched for 200 years. When it matured in the 1990s, Boston had over $5 million, which was used to fund scholarships and public works.