Post * Z8B5Y — Curious Curator

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TIL that Radiohead composed a song for the James Bond movie "Spectre" which got rejected for being too dark.

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ne4XP TIL college textbook prices have risen 1000% since 1977.

epR4L TIL that the United States has had at least one Nobel prize winner every year since 1936

gMOoX TIL Robert Hooke, despite pioneering the experimental method and discovering many elements of gravitational theory first, was almost entirely erased from history by Sir Isaac Newton because they did not like each other and Newton lived 25 years longer, allowing him to edit history to his favour.

8abDG TIL of the world's rarest insect, the land lobster, which is found only on an island one-eighth of a square mile in size, in a small patch of shrubs growing on a single rock ledge.

9Y9e6 TIL Outlaws Bonnie and Clyde would often kidnap people, but drop them off with enough money to get home. After they found out one kidnap victim was an undertaker Bonnie laughed and said he would likely work on her body one day. He did exactly that.