Post * DxYY — Curious Curator

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TIL Macaulay Culkin was paid $100,000 for Home Alone, and $4.5m for Home Alone II

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KpWB TIL that Russia has a monument to laboratory mice, to celebrate their contribution to science

0bPy TIL: WHen Ford was first creating the Model T’s, a lot of the car was made out of wood. With so much wood scrap, Ford discovered a use for all the waste wood: Charcoal briquettes. Eventually, Ford Charcoal was renamed after a relative of his: Kingsford.

eW7E TIL that 16-20% of google searches each day have never been searched before

GYn5g TIL That in 1979, Australia Fined NASA $400 for littering after after debris from a The spacecraft "Skylab" landed in Western Australia. NASA never paid. 30 years later a Californian radio DJ raised funds from his listeners and paid NASA’s bill.

QJn1d TIL of Necropants, pants made from the skin of a dead man, which are believed in Icelandic witchcraft to be capable of producing an endless supply of money. But only if a widow's stolen coin is placed in the scrotum.