Post * 0ykA — Curious Curator

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TIL that Dwayne Johnson was Tim Burton’s second choice for Willy Wonka in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’

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lNxr TIL that the Coelacanth, a prehistoric fish more related to reptiles and mammals than modern fish, was thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago until fishermen caught one in 1938

epOjk TIL compulsive ice chewing and craving is called Pagophagia. It's a form of pica, often linked to iron-deficiency anemia.

LQNrZ TIL a group chemical compounds are named after Keanu Reeves, as they are comparable to his lethality in his film roles

k7bd TIL: In Biertan village in Transylvania Romania, the church had a “divorce/reconciliation room”: Couples that wanted to break up had to live two weeks in a room with one small bed, one table with one chair, one spoon, one plate. In 300 years they had just one divorce.

wojZ1 TIL the word Covid-19 appeared in the dictionary a record 34 days after coinage. Before that, the fastest was AIDS, which took two years.