Post * Qr6M — Curious Curator

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TIL Doritos makes a “toasted corn” flavor, essentially tortilla chips

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0waxL TIL: Hollywood only has 4% market share in India, compared to overwhelming dominance in other Asian countries like Japan ,South Korea and China.

GYGv1 TIL the reason rockets used to be painted with a large black and white checkered pattern was to make it obvious if the rocket rolled in flight.

eavb TIL Christian Bale’s stepmother, Gloria Steinham, was a feminist who protested the 1991 publication of the novel, American Psycho, due to its portrayal of violence toward women. In 2000, Bale went on to star as the title character of the novel’s film adaption.

VPdp TIL of Han van Meegeren, a painter who avoided execution in 1945 for selling Dutch cultural property to the Nazis by proving he’d forged it all after setting up his studio in court. He received just one year for fraud and was later hailed as a hero for duping Hermann Göring, amongst others.

paE4 TIL the world’s largest parrot, the Kakapo, is the world’s only flightless parrot. It is nocturnal, herbivorous, and is one of the world’s longest-living birds with an average lifespan of 95 years. It is critically endangered. As of 2012, there were only 126 living individuals known.