Post * 9Lwp — Curious Curator

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TIL that a man claimed the only unclaimed habitable area left on earth, Bir Tawil, so that his daughter could be a real princess.

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gr0gL TIL the 4th most popular drug in the world is the betel nut, a class 1 carcinogen and stimulating fruit chewed mostly in Asia

4vOb TIL The developers of famous movies such as Forest Gump, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Return of the Jedi and many others use “Hollywood Accounting” to inflate expenses and show a net loss. This allowed them to completely dodge payments to writers that agreed to be paid a percentage of net profit.

nWErG TIL that when Miss Saigon premiered, the wedding song was all nonsense syllables, which were not replaced with real Vietnamese lyrics until twenty five years later

8pVZ TIL on a British Airways flight en route to Spain the windshield blew out, sucking the captain halfway out. Flight attendants suffered frostbite and other injuries to hold onto his legs while the copilot landed the plane– with no loss of life.

p89oe TIL some scholars view American patriotism as a sort of religion. They argue documents such as the Constitution are equivalent to holy scriptures, and figures such as George Washington are viewed like prophets or gods in religions.