Post * N4Z1 — Curious Curator

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TIL: In WW2 the Manhattan Project used the codename “Copper” for the element Plutonium. They then had to rename the element Copper to “Honest-to-God Copper.”

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aLb TIL Polish jokes were strategically used by the Nazis to justify war crimes against Poland.

dekd TIL that Shirley Henderson, the girl who played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost in the bathroom) was actually 37 years old when she played the character in the Harry Potter series.

j9nN TIL that a man from Pennsylvania was accidentally credited $92 quadrillion by PayPal and was the richest man in the world for 2 minutes.

WkA98 TIL that during a flight of the Hindenburg over the UK a parcel was thrown overboard and found in West Yorkshire. It contained flowers, a small silver Cross, and a note requesting they be delivered to a passenger's brother's grave

e4nL TIL that, in the early nineties, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg literally traded movie properties they were no longer interested in making. The films? Cape Fear (1991) and Schindler’s List (1993).