Post * 4XnbJ — Curious Curator

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TIL Screenwriter Shane Black's original title for The Last Boy Scout was Die Hard, but Producer Joel Silver asked if he could use the title for a movie he was working on called Nothing Lasts Forever. Black agreed and Nothing Last Forever became Die Hard and Die Hard became The Last Boy Scout

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Z8PDv TIL The world's first surgery performed with the use of augmented reality was successfully completed at the Sant'Orsola polyclinic in Bologna.

MgJK TIL, that psychologist Dr. John Gottman, created the magic ratio of 5:1. That a relationship is likely to be stable if there are five times as many positive interactions between partners as there are negative.

xXJB TIL that during the Nazi occupation of Greece, the mayor of the island of Zakynthos was ordered to make a list with the names of all Jews on the island. The list handed over to the Nazis contained two names: the mayor’s and the islands Bishop. All Zakynthos Jews survived the Holocaust.

rNnX4 TIL: Canyons are the OG 'desire paths' for water

Am7n TIL a man’s house was invaded by a SWAT team because they thought he was searching the Web for how to kill his wife, but it turned out he was a TV writer researching for a crime show.