Post * XXZ6 — Curious Curator

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TIL that police broke up a Lego heist ring last year for stealing $40,000 worth of bricks and found that one of the suspects was also in possession of another $160,000 of bricks—18 pallets worth.

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WkLZB TIL Adrian Newey, the chief technical officer of Red Bull Racing, was expelled from Repton School after he maxed out an audio mixer during a concert and shattered the building's 11th century stained glass windows

ANAKx TIL In 1906 Andrew Carnegie formed the Simplified Spelling Board to fix spelling in the English language. Teddy Roosevent was ready to impose their recommendations but he and Carnegie disagreed on how to get the public to adopt. So we're still stuck with that "d" and "e" in Wednesday.

OorWY TIL that the 2000 Paralympic Spanish basketball team faked its way to a gold medal by pretending that 10 of its 12 members had an intellectual disability

Rwn6 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.

X0VVj TIL: Before the invention of the paint tube in 1841, oil paints used to be stored in pig bladders. The artist would prick the bladder and squeeze out the amount of paint they needed.