Post * LM4r — Curious Curator

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TIL There are TWO actors who have been killed by a Predator, an Alien and a Terminator : Lance Henriksen AND Bill Paxton

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WQjB TIL when Gangnam Style went viral, the stock Psy’s family was involved with made his father $11m and his brother $17m.

ObX4 TIL that NASA has employed George Aldrich for 40 years as a ‘chief sniffer’. His job being to smell items before they go up to space to make sure no harmful smells will end up on the ISS. His nose also gets 'calibrated’ every 4 months.

9JLD TIL Jackie Chan once broke 12 cement blocks with a fist holding an egg without damaging the egg

rRwZ0 TIL that when Norway was occupied by the Germans in WW2, the Nazis made the Lebensborn program where Norwegian girls were forced into mating with Nazi officers and having their children. One of the Lebensborn women grew up to be Frida Lyngstad, who was a member of the Swedish band ABBA.

wodB7 TIL of the Sampoong Department Store collapse - the 2nd deadliest building collapse in peacetime. The store manager refused to evacuate when told the building would imminently collapse, and served only 7.5 years in prison