Post * N7YJ — Curious Curator

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TIL that if you go anywhere outside the US border, when you return the government can detain you for as long as they want, as well as search and seize any of your property they want, an activity American citizens are supposed to be protected from by the 4th Amendment to the Constitution.

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mxZAR TIL 13 minutes were cut out of the movie The Land Before Time because it was considered too “frightening” for kids. The uncut version has never been released.

wowG8 TIL that the first million-selling record in the United States was "Wreck of the Old 97" recorded by Vernon Dalhart in 1924.

epemE TIL that George Orwell, the author of 1984, was the first person to describe the post-WWII settlement as a cold war.

mxooM TIL that Louis Braille (the inventor of Braille) is buried in his home which now is a museum, but his hands were cut off at the wrists and buried in his childhood hometown

0d1wp TIL that they created Gwyneth Paltrow's head for Se7en but never used it. It was however used in the autopsy scene in Contagion.