Post * p8X8 — Curious Curator

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TIL upon being elected mayor of Reykjavík, Jón Gnarr said he would only consider working with politicians who agreed that the HBO series “The Wire” was the best thing to happen to television.

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1nP8 TIL that a bottle of Vitamin Water (20 oz) contains more sugar than three Krispy Kreme doughnuts

5919 TIL the Nigerian email scam is the modern version of a con called the Spanish Prisoner, which dates back to long before the Internet was invented.

4eJN TIL America’s first female self-made millionaire was a black woman

aBp0 TIL of Francine Gottfried, a woman who was famous briefly in the 1960s because crowds of men would stare at and harass her on her way to work. The crowd peaked at 10,000 and required a police escort

696Gm TIL during the War of 1812, Thomas Jefferson believed annexing Canada and expelling the British from the North American continent would be relatively easy—"a mere matter of marching." But Canada was populated largely by British loyalists at the time and the US invasions ended in dismal failure.