Post * Bgvpr — Curious Curator

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TIL that Bosnia and Herzegovina actually has a coastline and is not landlocked by Croatia. A small town in Herzegovina, Neum, connects to the ocean.

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O1rR TIL after being assigned to create the first act of a play for his playwriting class, Matt Damon turned in a 40-some-odd-page document and said, “Look, I might have failed your class, but it is the first act of something longer.” This was later developed into the movie, ‘Good Will Hunting’.

6J1Y TIL J. Paul Getty refused to pay for his grandson’s ransom. When an ear arrived by mail and the kidnappers lowered the sum to $3m instead of $17m, he agreed to pay only $2.2 million - the maximum amount that would be tax deductible. He lent his son the remaining $800.000, at a 4% interest.

MeXD8 TIL that the Burj Khalifa is so tall that inhabitants above the 80th floor have to wait 2 additional minutes to break their Ramadan fast compared to people on the ground, while people above the 150th floor have to wait an additional 3 minutes.

neXrr TIL that ants will refuse “medical” help from their colony if they know they are mortally wounded. Rather than waste the colony’s resources and energy on futile rehabilitation, the wounded ant flails its legs, forcing help to abandon them.

VMJPG TIL the Pacific NW is responsible for the majority of hop production in the U.S. with 99% of all production occuring in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. In 2017 Washington State alone produced 75.4% of the total hops in the country, the majority of which was grown in the Yakima Valley region.