Post * 1ajGD — Curious Curator

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TIL that when the Notre Dame Cathedral was on fire the some 200,000 bees that live in the roof were thought to be dead, but in fact they were still alive after the fire.

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j6pya TIL the tension between Marlon Brando & director Frank Oz while filming The Score escalated to such a point that Brando refused to be on set if Oz was there. So co-star Robert De Niro ended up directing Brando with Oz stationed at a distance while he privately passed directorial messages to De Niro.

rlm4 TIL, Koreans reckon the pregnancy period as one year of life for infants, and age increments increase on New Year’s Day rather than on the anniversary of birthdays. Thus, one born immediately before New Year’s Day may only be a few days old in western reckoning, but two years old in Korea.

meyY TIL the writer and producer of the PBS show “Ghostwriter” had planned to reveal Ghostwriter to be a murdered runaway slave during the Civil War. He was killed by slave catchers and their dogs as he was teaching other runaway slaves how to read in the woods.

vRQB TIL that a few of a species of giant insect thought to be extinct were found on a rocky outcropping in the middle of the ocean; scientists have bred them and are waging a PR campaign to return them to the island where they used to live

N7yEM TIL despite the huge size of whales, their pupils are only about 50% larger than those of humans. However, this still means they can hypothetically see stars about one magnitude fainter than we can, revealing 2.5 times more stars. Giant deep-sea squids have pupils some 10 times wider than whales.