Post * 05YL — Curious Curator

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TIL that Cuba has one of the world’s highest literacy rates

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9wvvM Today I learned that John Carpenter's The Thing, on release was a critical and commercial failure. It also cost the director a multi movie deal with Universal.

dg7Z TIL that it was illegal in Soviet Union to not have a job

x6yvB TIL Rick Rubin uses Bob Dylan's old tour bus as a second studio at his famous Shangri-La Studios

xV070 TIL that Carlotta J. Thompkins, also known as Lottie Deno, was in the late 1800s Texas' most famous poker player. Later in life she and her husband became upstanding citizens in Deming, New Mexico, where her husband became a bank vice president and she helped found St. Luke's Episcopal Church.

JYMK8 TIL Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, devised a WWII plan to plant false info about the Allies’ next attack on a dead man, drift him at sea, and hope he’d be found by Nazi sympathizers. Operation Mincemeat worked, turning the tide for the Allies, who stormed Italy while the Nazis defended Greece.