Post * WdPA — Curious Curator

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TIL of the spacecraft cemetery - a remote location in the Pacific where dozens of decommissioned vessels have splashed down

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5Vxa8 TIL the alibi Hermes provided after stealing 50 of Apollo's cattle: he WAS born yesterday and couldn't know what cattle were. When required to return the remaining unsacrificed cattle to Apollo, he distracted him by playing the lyre, and traded it for Apollo's cattle and position as divine herdsman

OG7je TIL Japan's exclusive ocean is 12 times its land area, including Okinotori islet, 6.3 inch above sea level

9YY7M TIL the producers of "The Big Short" took huge pains to get permission to use Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks” -- especially from Jimmy Page, who had disappeared somewhere with a new girlfriend and was only located in a remote pub on the very last day before the trailer's premiere

5V0N8 TIL that Saturn's sixth-largest moon Enceladus is mostly covered by fresh, clean ice, making it the most reflective body in the Solar System. It shoots out water vapor, and other solid material totaling about 200 kilograms per second. Most of these materials supplies the making of Saturn's E ring.

BrKr TIL Russell Crowe was unhappy with the screenplay of Gladiator. The famous line “In this life or the next, I will have my vengeance” he initially refused to say, telling writer ”Your lines are garbage but I’m the greatest actor in the world and I can make even garbage sound good”.