Post * YnPG — Curious Curator

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TIL Saudi Arabia is the largest consumer (per capita) of YouTube; with women as the biggest audience and education as the largest content category they watch

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e09QL TIL that Plymouth, England has a 17th century church that was burned out by incendiary bombs in 1941, dedicated as a memorial to civilian deaths instead of being rebuilt, and is currently enclosed within a roundabout on a main road through the city

PY7GO TIL in the movie The Princess Bride, when Count Rugen knocks Westly played by Cary Elwes on the head the tap came a little too hard and Elwes was knocked legitimately unconscious; he later awoke in the hospital. It's that take, with Elwes actually passing out, that appears in the film.

M7RQb TIL Australia has the longest continually producing shiraz vines in the world.

X076P TIL J.J. Thomson, Nobel prize winning physicist, had 6 of his students win a Nobel prize in physics, and 2 of his students win a Nobel prize in chemistry. Additionally, his son also won a Nobel prize in physics.

R7Gaw TIL Germany was one the first countries to introduce animal protection laws, including banning cutting the tails and ears of dogs without anesthesia or causing unnecessary harm to animals. This was largely thanks to its animal-loving leader at the time, Adolf Hitler.