Post * 5YwdP — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1920, U.S. Mint employee Orville Harrington stole an estimated $80,000 in gold by methodically hiding the bars in his hollow wooden leg.

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VMveZ TIL the Senate of Zimbabwe reserves 2 seats for people with disabilities and 18 for traditional chiefs. Currently 21 out of 80 senators are women.

J1B5k TIL baking soda does not absorb odor. It absorbs moisture and is an effective detergent when used as a scrub, but an open box in your refrigerator does nothing.

negR9 TIL of the gömböc, a convex three-dimensional homogeneous shape that when resting on a flat surface has just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium. The balancing properties of the gömböc are associated with the "righting response" ⁠ ⁠of shelled animals such as tortoises and beetles.

5YK68 TIL Russell Crowe hated the big speech scene in Gladiator where he confronts Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), unsuccessfully trying to improvise new lines and ultimately saying "It was shit. But I'm the greatest actor in the world and I can make even shit sound good."

YpNQr TIL That the concept of "Lemmings following one another over a cliff", was a false claim when it was discovered that a Disney nature show forced hundreds of lemmings off a cliff just for the film footage.