Post * 8evGa — Curious Curator

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TIL that Alfred E. Neuman was an unnamed stock character in advertisements and political art dating as far back as 1894 before he was named and adopted as the mascot for Mad Magazine in 1956.

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QNbQX TIL Steven Spielberg told movie stars that if they wanted to work with him, a prerequisite was that they gambled along with him by not taking any salary upfront and instead only taking backend compensation. He said "...if my film makes no money I get no money. They should be prepared to do the same"

VyED TIL the youngest Olympic athlete in Rio ‘16 was born in 2002

OoGyY The third molars—the last of a group of teeth that grinds food into easy-to-swallow chunks—tend to be overcrowded in adult human mouths, and thus require yanking. But every other toothed mammal has room for their “wisdom teeth,” and so did Neanderthals and other early hominids, says evolutionary biologist Leslea Hlusko of the University of California, Berkeley. So why have those teeth become such a pain for us?

b6PNQ TIL in 1963 a gem heist occurred in the US every 32 seconds on average which totaled $41 million worth of insured precious and semiprecious stones. In the mid-1960s, an estimated 3.5 million diamonds of one third of a carat or more were sold annually in the US which was "well short of demand."

R5jL7 TIL that the Oscar for Best International Feature is awarded to the country that the winning film originates from, not specifically to the director. Italy holds the most wins in the category (14), whilst France holds the most nominations (41).