Post * LQyd — Curious Curator

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TIL that in the interrogation scene of The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger wanted Christian Bale to beat him as hard as he could so he could get the real feeling of what was required from the scene.

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rN6Ve TIL that each calendar month's full moon has a specific name, like "Wolf Moon" or "Harvest Moon."

Yp8mx TIL of Jaycee Dugard, an 11-year old girl who was kidnapped in 1991 only to be found when her kidnapper walked into a school in 2009 with two young girls claiming they were his daughters. They were in fact his daughters, their mother being Jaycee; a prisoner for 18 years and a mother at 14.

DQwlD TIL that theres an extreme sport in India called the wall/well of death. In this sport, they will drive their cars and bikes along the sides/walls of a large concrete cylindrical structure. In a circle while also taking tips from the crows at the top of the cylinder.

4Xgaw TIL: The band Chicago was so fond of cocaine that during a tour in the 1970's they put a fake phone booth on stage called the "Snortitorium" so they could do lines mid-concert without going backstage.

w1E8 TIL that mathematician John Edmund Kerrich passed his time in Nazi captivity by flipping a coin 10,000 times. The total percentage of heads and tails flips varied wildly at first but gradually converged around 50/50, providing a demonstration of the Law of Large Numbers.