Post * pxPQ — Curious Curator

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TIL the largest single bloc of opposition to the elimination of the penny from American currency circulation is the zinc industry, who earns millions per year from their production.

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p8pkb TIL the most expensive item purchased on the TV Show 'Pawn Stars' was a series of original sketches of the book 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak. Rick paid $250,000 for the sketches.

jNrlp TIL Intelligent people tend to be messy, stay awake longer, and swear more

YpDVP TIL that on 9/11/2001, North East Air Defense Sector commanding officer Kevin Nasypany remarked "The hijack's not supposed to be for another hour" because they had scheduled a simulation involving politically motivated asylum-seekers hijacking a plane & landing it on a Cuba-like island

X0ZrP TIL the founder of Bob's Red Mill gave away full ownership of the company to his 700 employees

MeZaW TIL that in 2015 a Hezbollah cell was caught stockpiling ammonium nitrate in London