Post * 8aKyZ — Curious Curator

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TIL The moon is shaped like an egg: it only looks round because the big end points toward Earth

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4D1N TIL that legendary Hollywood producer Hal Roach would employ someone called a “wildie” who was either an insane person or a drunk to sit in his writers’ room and spout crazy ideas whenever they had writer’s block

RAV6 TIL Spotify has a CPR playlist. All the songs on the playlist have a tempo of 100 to 120 bpm, which is the same tempo at which one should give chest compressions during CPR. Coincidently, two of the songs are: “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen and “Stayin’ Alive” by The Bee Gees.

Y7exA TIL during the Falklands War the British Navy mistook whales for submarines and torpedoed them, killing three

9wbnD TIL Adam Rainer was an Austrian man who was the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant.

K1EQ TIL that in 1997, a group of enthousiasts began building a castle in France, using only materials, tools and techniques available in the 13th century (800 years ago). The project is scheduled to be completed sometime in the 2020’s.