Post * v1YoR — Curious Curator

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TIL Michael Phelps considered suicide after the 2012 Summer Olympics. He started the Michael Phelps Foundation to help other people with mental illness.

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xRr5 TIL The Texas Revolution was mainly fought because Mexico abolished slavery

BrK0D TIL that Sweetwater Sound, the largest online retailer of music equipment and pro audio gear in North America, was originally started as a recording studio that was built by one man in a Volkswagen Bus in 1979. That man, Chuck Surack, still owns the company 100% and works on-site daily.

jNaVv TIL in a 1966 study, a group of engineers, mathematicians, artists, and architects were administered 50 micrograms of LSD and 100 milligrams of mescaline over a period of time. They then discovered solutions to professional problems that were previously unsolvable for them for 3 months

xVmX5 TIL that Mao Zedong was responsible for more deaths than Hitler or Stalin.Political scientist Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014), a non-China specialist who made wildly higher estimates than any other historian—that Mao was responsible for 77 million deaths.

WWkN TIL years ago DirecTV was widely pirated. The piracy ‘war’ largely ended through a 'trojan horse’ attack that destroyed most hacked access cards. To add a little 'spice’, DirecTV’s “Black Sunday” attack rewrote the first 8 bytes of the card to read “GAMEOVER”.