Post * rNalo — Curious Curator

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TIL: In 2013, after Zimbabwe finished paying the salaries of public workers, the government had only $217 in the entire country's bank balance due to decades of financial mismanagement and 231 million % inflation rate. The value equates to 1 .25 carat diamond.

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7rldr TIL, Mark Felt, ex-FBI Ass. Director, had job where he had to find out if Red Cross toilet paper misled consumers into thinking it was endorsed by the US Red Cross.He found that 1)Most people DID use toilet paper &2) did not appreciate being asked about it.He applied & started at FBI the next year.

KPW6 TIL Bart Sibrel lured Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, to a hotel to interview him for a documentary. Sibrel, poking Aldrin with a bible, called him a “thief, liar and coward”, demanding he swear the moon landing wasn’t staged. Instead, Aldrin punched Sibrel, and was not prosecuted.

R50JQ TIL that Shopify was initially made by a snowboard company. Unsatisfied with existing e-commerce, they created their own to sell their snowboards.

16a9d TIL Sima Yan, the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, empowered his imperial princes because he blamed the weakening of imperial princes for the preceding Wei Dynasty’s fall. Ironically, this led to the destabilization of his own dynasty and forced their retreat south of the Huai river

kOvOe TIL that R. Lee Ermey, actor for the drill instructor in "Full Metal Jacket", was originally meant to be a technical advisor for the film. However, after Ermey made a tape tirading over the various extras, he was cast as the instructor.