Post * OMV1 — Curious Curator

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TIL Daniel Day-Lewis was performing on stage as Hamlet when, while acting out the scene where Hamlet talks to his dead father, he believed he saw the ghost of his own father. He ran off the stage, refused to go back on, and hasn’t done theater since.

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xPEo TIL the Diomede Islands in the Bering Straight are 4km apart but have a time difference of 23 hours. For this reason, they are sometimes referred to as “Tomorrow Island” and “Yesterday Isle”.

rQ0x TIL The number one soft drink in Scotland isn’t Coke or Pepsi, its Irn-Bru. A company known for controversial ads, such as a mother singing about how she used to be a man, and another ad where a woman says she’d never gotten so much pleasure from 4 and a half inches before.

vjvB TIL That Archimedes developed an anti-ship weapon called the Claw of Archimedes. It lifted a ship by the prow then dropped it, often causing the vessel to capsize or at least severely damaging it.

RNM1 TIL at the night of 9/11, Iranians held vigils for the victims of WTC bombings

VMa1p TIL When author Flannery O'Connor had a high school assignment to sew a dress, she made one for her pet duck, which she then brought to school to model it.