Post * rJpx — Curious Curator

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TIL that the founders of Outback Steakhouse have never been to Australia

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M5B7 TIL Humans are born with only two innate fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds. Every other fear is learned.

dw17 TIL Testimony of war crimes committed by Iraq against Kuwait was an astroturf campaign to sell Operation Desert Storm to the American people, people involved included senators and congressmen who knowingly lied.

V588 TIL that the FBI might pay you 10,000$ if you rat out people who point laser pointers at planes.

j6eon TIL the New Zealand army helped in making the LOTR films by filling as Soldiers and Orcs

yXo8 TIL in 1953 a newspaper boy was paid with a coin which he found to be hollow and contain a coded message. He gave it to authorities but the code could not be deciphered. Years later, a Russian spy in the U.S. defected and during his interrogation was shown the coin and code. The message was for him.