Post * Rko9 — Curious Curator

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TIL that there’s a man who has been in 692 movies. His name is Frank Welker.

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PYEAg TIL that azurite was commonly used as a blue pigment in middle age and Renaissance paintings, but it oxidates at some point and turns into malachite. So the blue parts made from azurite in those paintings are now green.

W7MoL TIL that Nikola Tesla tried to sell several governments on a "death ray" that would destroy armies and planes from 200 miles away

QLle TIL that Las Vegas is a long way from being the gambling capital of the world - Macau’s gambling revenue is a whopping 5 times larger

nWnAb TIL of Slaver ants - an entire category of ants who never work, and instead capture and enslave other ants as workers

MeKRV TIL when the New York Jets played the Miami Dolphins in London in 2015, the team had 350 rolls of American toilet paper shipped to England on the recommendation of an intern who said British toilet paper was too thin.