Post * KOGG4 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Orlando Bloom and Peter Jackson have both seen "taking the hobbits to isengard"

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4ba TIL there is no such thing as canola, and the name canola comes from Canadian Oil Low Acid.

ANoQd TIL The Crypt of Civilization is a time capsule room that was sealed in 1940 and won't be opened until the year 8113.

vPXa8 TIL on Nov 13, 1946, NY, pilot Curtis Talbot and scientist Dr. Vincent Schaefer, working for GE Research, released three pounds of dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) into the clouds at 14,000 ft. They looked back to see long streamers of snow. They had created the world’s first human-made snowstorm.

16AVP TIL the bow of the USS New York was forged using 7.5 tons of recycled World Trade Center steel

Zp9rB TIL Jordan Chandler initially denied the allegations against Michael Jackson until his dentist father, Evan Chandler, used the sedative sodium amytal during a dental surgery. Sodium amytal puts people in a hypnotic state and can enable false memories to be implanted.