Post * QNDBe — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Chinese mile is much shorter than the standard mile used everywhere else (esp. US and UK)

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ADWx TIL- Leif Ericson discover North America 500 years before Columbus using Iceland Spar, a stone that refracts light in 2 visible wavelengths, enabling him to find the sun on cloudy days.

OGOl1 TIL JFK’s first casket was buried at sea in 1966.

XEkGE TIL Daniel Radcliffe earned £1 million for the 1st Harry Potter film and around £15 million for the 6th

D1lPv TIL about a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, who worked at the French embassy as an accountant in Beijing in 1964 who had a 20-year affair with a Chinese actress, who turned out to be both a spy and a man in drag. The diplomat claims not to have known that his lover was actually a man.

wvVJ TIL John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop “drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes”. When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.