Post * 1748 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in order to capture footage of tigers hunting in the wild, instead of using a human camera crew, the BBC gave cameras to a team of elephants and trained them to operate the film equipment.

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Z8GEQ TIL Spanish Civil War jail cells were built like 3-D modern art paintings in order to torture prisoners

mxVM TIL it would be cheaper to give homeless people homes than to let them live on the street

yVNpw TIL that the famous James Bond theme (first heard 1962) was source of a long running dispute between John Barry and Monty Norman. Norman had originally written a song for a musical adaptation of V. S. Naipaul's novel "A House for Mr Biswas" which was the inspiration. (link of the song in comments)

VBQmG TIL when Jack Benny died in 1974, his will arranged for a single long-stemmed red rose to be delivered to his widow, Mary Livingstone, every day for the rest of her life. She lived eight and a half more years, passing away in 1983.

loMwr TIL That more than half the PhD's in the United States are fake, totaling up to 50,000 fake PhD's every year, along with 3,300 unrecognized and fake universities in the world.