Post * Gl9Q — Curious Curator

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TIL that Christoph Waltz is the first and, thus far, only actor to win an Oscar for acting in a Quentin Tarantino film.

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OoOjX TIL that in the Stalin’s Russia, some people who were late to work three times were sent to a hard labour camp for three years as punishment

dObd TIL Bob Ross was missing a finger due to a woodworking accident in his youth. In The Joy of Painting, he hid it by holding his palette in the hand with the missing finger.

R7y74 TIL The Hudson Bay Company sold land comprising about a quarter of the continent to Canada in 1869 for $1.5 million. The inhabiting indigenous peoples were handed over to Canada like "a flock of sheep".

l7nYG [TIL] Tigers, Lions, and other big cats don't have slitted pupils like house cats, but round pupils like us.

0j75 TIL then PM of Australia, Ben Chifley, would regularly receive calls on his secret direct line from housewives trying to order meat as the number was similar to the local Butcher’s. Instead of embarrassing the callers, Chifley would take down their orders and pass it onto the Butcher.