Post * YEE7 — Curious Curator

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TIL some of the profits made from Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon were invested in the production of Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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g7n4 TIL that there is a street made out of wood in Philadelphia

woXR7 TIL Mel Gibson couldn’t get any studio to fund ‘Passion of the Christ’. Instead of scrapping the film, he chose to fund it by himself, an action which analysts labelled as “idiotic”. He spent $30M on the film & went on to make over $475M since he didn't have to split the profits

bQJQ TIL that the Tiger Beetle can run so fast it can go blind, having to stop whilst chasing prey so that their sight can ‘catch up’

8evXL TIL In 1998 part of the hull of the Titanic was recovered and is displayed in a casino. Visitors are given a 'boarding pass' with the name of a passenger and find out the fate of their passenger at the end of the exhibition.

9MOm TIL that when Jefferson sent Lewis & Clark on their 1804 expedition across the American West, they all still very much believed in the potential of encountering living mammoths. This was because, at the time, people still refused that God would ever let anything go extinct.