Post * Oo4V7 — Curious Curator

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TIL the pages of Finland's passport make a flipbook of a moose walking

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ADOVo TIL The Grapes of Wrath was allowed in Soviet theaters to show the "cruel" nature of capitalism but quickly withdrawn as Soviets were amazed that even poor people in America owned cars

R7JKQ TIL that someone in New York state bought an old bowl at a tag sale in 2007 for $3. When the buyer had it appraised several years later, they learned it was a 1,000-year-old Chinese bowl initially valued at $200,000 to $300,000. It later sold at auction for $2.2 million.

lom1K TIL the Titanic's watertight compartments likely caused its rapid sinking by keeping too much water weight in the bow of the boat. Without the compartments, the ship would have remained horizontal and taken several hours to sink allowing nearby ships to rescue all passengers in time.

woAdJ TIL that a carpenter got an MIT PhD. After his sailboat almost sank during a storm, Lyman Page decided to go to graduate school in physics. He went to MIT unannounced, got an unpaid night job in a lab, and worked as a carpenter. The job turned into a PhD, and Page is now a Princeton professor.

Zpl9o TIL the video game 'GoldenEye 007' was banned in Germany for 23 years (1997-2021) listed as "Media Harmful to Young Persons."