Post * v1PQ8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Soviets secretly bought clear Coca-Cola from the US and disguised it as vodka

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VBY4m TIL That a journalist accidentally discovered his wife was the world's best Tetris player

5VYQ8 TIL when Spotify was listed on the NYSE, a Swiss flag was placed outside of the building. It should have been the Swedish one.

R7Eyw TIL in 1879 it was estimated the Oxford English Dictionary to take 10 years for completion, but in five years they'd only reached the word "Ant". After crowdsourcing readers to help it was completed 44 years later. The publishers now estimate it would take a single person 120 years to just type it.

lwg7 TIL of Sgt Earl Hale. While taking six SS officers prisoner, one slashed Hale’s throat. He survived and remained in the European Theater. Later, General Patton himself would berate him for being out of uniform until he produced a doctor’s note excusing him from wearing the required tie.

P1EnL TIL that bananas can be used as a scale for radiation doses