› added 7 months ago

129

TIL Squid Games is based on Brothers Home in Busan, Korea in the 1970's and 80's

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

0DG1 TIL Fidel Castro has personally apologized for the treatment of gays in Cuba.
NX5eJ TIL that during the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin there was a gliding competition as a demonstration sport
p8BLN TIL that the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director at the time, refused to acknowledge the existence of the Mafia. It was only when a local state trooper watched the home of mobster Joe Barbara on a hunch, that he stumbled onto a meeting of around 100 members, confirming their existence.
EXG7 TIL that phasing out large currencies reduce crime and corruption because smaller currencies increase the amount of space and weight needed to transport, store, and process cash while maintaining the same value.
5VOWD TIL Tootsie Roll Industries produces a giant one-pound version of a Sugar Daddy which has 1928 kcal.