Post * ADnM4 — Curious Curator

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TIL until 2005 the only living people to appear on British stamps were the Queen and the drummer of Queen

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yVLBa TIL that, Some species of pearlfish have chosen an interesting shelter: inside the anus of a sea cucumber.

85bG TIL In WWII the Allies used the price of oranges in Paris as an indicator of whether railroad bridges had been bombed successfully.

nXPY TIL George Orwell sent a copy of 1984 to his idol, Aldous Huxley. Huxley wrote Orwell a letter, in effect saying, “Good book, but the future will be more like what I wrote in Brave New World, not 1984.”

l7eK5 TIL ticks are arachnids, so they have 8 legs

16OWV TIL that the Batmobile is legally a character. When DC Comics sued a mechanic building replicas of Batman's vehicle, the courts ruled that the Batmobile has "physical as well as conceptual qualities" that make it distinctive, and is not merely a "useful article" (an ordinary car).