Post * 7o8X — Curious Curator

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TIL Jeremy Clarkson once published his bank account number and sort code to prove that the information couldn’t be used to steal money. Someone used it to set up a monthly direct debit from his bank account to a charity.

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WkOOo TIL I learned in 1963 someone in east Berlin escaped to west Berlin by stealing a tank and driving it through the Berlin wall

VMW0B TIL Hitler had a British stalker who was a member of the aristocracy and was conceived in a town called Swastika.

VMZ1k TIL about a mineral discovered in the town of Cummington, Massachusetts in 1824. It’s called Cummingtonite.

mrKP TIL Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, has long maintained his iconic work is not about censorship, but ‘useless’ television destroying literature. He has even walked out of a UCLA lecture after students insisted his book was about censorship.

NeDE TIL a German abbot wrote a book on magic in 1499. A century later, it was discovered to be one of the first books on cryptography, carefully encrypted disguised as a book on magic.