Post * 4XNMw — Curious Curator

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TIL of Friedman’s Golden Arches Theory that no two countries with MacDonalds have ever gone to war

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wLo97 TIL that in many American movies, the directors often edit out many of the hits, if not all during fight scenes, and that in Hong Kong cinema, especially Jackie Chan movies, they show the hit twice.

8YNL TIL Due to over 60 years of separation, differences in the language have developed between South and North Korea. This leads to many hardships for North Korean defectors after they escape, because they have to relearn Korean.

WkX1o TIL that The Beatles helped end racially segregated concerts by refusing to play at segregated events.

b9nOp TIL Thomas Jefferson's epitaph, which he wrote himself, states "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia." It makes no mention of his Presidency.

awJYZ TIL the UK spent £2.5m in the 1980s to imprison a consensual gay S&M community. The dominant partners were charged with assault and the submissive partners were charged with aiding their own assault.