Post * Rwn6 — Curious Curator

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TIL the train scene from Inception was not a CGI. The crew fitted a tractor truck to look like a diesel locomotive and smashed cars with it.

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epR94 TIL about Concetta Antico, a painter with tetrachromacy. This is an incredibly rare condition found predominantly in women, in which a person is born with 4 ocular cones instead of three. She can see around 90 million more colors than the average person.

E1y0P TIL David Hasselhoff's body in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie during the escape scene was a 12 foot-long animatronic torso of himself.

GADRJ TIL In 1995, 23 states had passed congressional term limits, limiting the amount of time their congressman can serve in office.

Lapd TIL that Judd Apatow watched the movie “True Romance” and had the idea of Floyd, the beloved stoner character played by Brad Pitt, finally leaving the apartment and getting chased by bad guys. That idea ended up becoming “Pineapple Express”.

l7Y6r TIL that there is a man named Richard Weaver who multiple times has bypassed the Secret Service in order to shake Presidents' hands, claiming that it is a way of passing "notes from God" to them.