Post * RLJQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that ‘Boyhood’, the film shot over the course of 12 years, only had a total of 39 days of filming.

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Krow TIL that their are four male suicides for every female suicide but their are three female suicide attempts for each male attempt.

rNlg1 TIL that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word published in Oxford Dictionaries, which defines it as "an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust".

yQEeX TIL that "Cedric" was not a name until Sir Walter Scott misspelled the Saxon name "Cerdic" in his novel "Ivanhoe".

kJ5Mm TIL that Leonardo da Vinci was one of the first men to dissect Human and Animal corpses to study Anatomy and Nervous System.

LXV TIL that the Times New Roman typeface was commissioned by The Times [of London] in 1931 after they were accused of being “badly printed and typographically antiquated”.