Post * Z00G — Curious Curator

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TIL a Jeep can be disassembled and reassembled in under 4 minutes.

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Z86KY TIL when McDonald's closed all its restaurants in Iceland in 2009, a man decided to buy his last hamburger and fries to see how long it would take to decompose. 10 yrs later, curious observers can watch a livestream of the burger & fries from its current location in a glass cabinet in Snotra House.

x6kDo TIL that boxer Harry Greb tricked his way into a shot at the Middleweight championship by paying several waiters to serve him water in coloured tumblers at a speakeasy. He then pretended to be drunk and thus no threat to the champion. Greb got his match and won the title.

KY9R9 TIL Whiplash director Damien Chazelle was hospitalized after a serious car accident in the third week of shooting, but returned to set the next day to finish the film on time, mirroring Miles Teller's character's car crash in the film

AZ7g TIL Charlie Chaplin would audition actresses using a “casting couch” like method, where he would prompt them to undress using caption cards and mime. He would then fondle their breasts, and once they were completely naked, he would throw pies at them.

e0aNg TIL that in 2007 a British pub landlord attempted to declare his pub as an official embassy of Redonda, a remote Caribbean micronation island, in order to evade the approaching indoor smoking ban in the UK.