Post * Oo9P7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in the 1970s, an unemployed haulage contractor named Arthur Hickey proposed to turn the Titanic into an iceberg using liquid nitrogen in order to raise her to the surface. It was calculated that this would have required half a million tons of liquid nitrogen.

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lor1N TIL that in the 1940s, Nazi Germany began printing millions of British pounds to destroy the British economy

5lW8 TIL that some old books were released with some of the pages “uncut” and folded together, and in order to read them, you must cut the pages

jNE5p TIL that the TV show Mr Robot has a team of hackers and cyber security experts who make sure that the hacking shown on the show is accurate. Hacking scenes are also performed by members of the technical team in real life, then recorded and rebuilt using Flash animation.

v1Zwx TIL China was one of the only places in the world that did not release Elvis Presley's music at the time of its initial release. The few Elvis fans who managed to get their hands on his records often saw the material set ablaze by Red Guards and the government denounced his music as pornography

epwOk TIL that once a year the Jindo Sea parts, revealing a pathway between two islands in South Korea