Post * n7jr — Curious Curator

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TIL that when you remember a past event, you are actually remembering the last time you remembered it, not the event itself.

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MjX0 TIL every Passover, one Arab-Israeli man buys all of Israel’s grain products, or ‘chametz,’ worth over $150 million for only $4,800. Afterwards he gives it back.

OGgNg TIL that official Pokémon cards of Katy Perry, Post Malone and J Balvin made for a 25th anniversary album were created but never mass produced. The only owners of these rare cards are the people on the cards themselves and there are no plans to release them for sale

Z8yyB TIL that one of the earliest uses for the term Round Robin was a document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing a ringleader from being identified, a mutiny on a ship for example.

9w6nB TIL about the existence of the Vietnamese 'Tarzan': Ho Van Lang. He lived in the Tra Bong district jungle for decades. Ho Van Lang passed away due to cancer at age 52.

61yZ TIL that in 400 BC Persian engineers could store ice, in the desert, in the middle of summer.