Post * 9wBLQ — Curious Curator

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TIL Jared Leto gifted a rat to his co-star Margot Robbie while filming Suicide Squad, naming it Rat Rat. Her landlord didn't allow it so Rat Rat was given to co-star Jai Courtney and then a costumer on the movie until it was given to Guillermo Del Toro's daughters

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ovoL TIL A smart phone’s nanotech based accelerometer can tell when it is being dropped and allow the phone to shut down parts of its hardware to protect it. That is why you see a lot of cracked glass on perfectly usable iPhones.

PY1Aw The National Toy Hall of Fame awarded “oldest toy” to the stick. Edward Bleiberg, a curator of Egyptian art at the Brooklyn Museum, says that Neolithic balls made from mud are probably out there, but in any case it would be difficult to determine if they were playthings.

LQVRP TIL helicopter stunt pilot Cliff Flemming was contracted by NASA to capture the Genesis probe that was intended to land in the Utah desert. But the parachute failed to deploy and it crashed.

XEn18 TIL that poppies aren't always red, they can also be white, pink, yellow, orange and purple

GYd8G TIL that between 1978 and 1983, John Williams won six Grammy Awards for Best Score in a row. He won them for Star Wars, Close Encounters, Superman, Empire, Raiders, and E.T.