Post * Ooy6a — Curious Curator

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TIL In North Korea western films are only available at private showings to high-ranking Party members, although the 1997 film Titanic is frequently shown to university students as an example of Western culture

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VMkOQ TIL that the man who created Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer, had virtually no knowledge of Chinese culture and created the character because he asked a ouija board how to make a fortune and it spelled out CHINAMAN.

GYbgE TIL that the Soviets were the first to land on Mars

9LVG TIL that Lions used to be the world’s second most widespread land mammal, ranging from western Europe to India and in the Americas from Peru to the Yukon

e0RX6 TIL that all gift cards in Australia are now valid for 3 years from 'activation' or purchase, regardless of when they were bought and regardless of what it says on the card.

xVWMk TIL about the traffic-inducing game of “leapfrog” played between truck drivers, where they get points for accumulating “bugs” (car drivers) stuck behind them as they do their “leap” in the left lane past the other trucks. The record is a 57-bug trail of cars stuck behind the leaping truck for 29 min