Post * a81Bo — Curious Curator

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TIL the first words ever spoken in a feature film were, “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” — delivered by Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer (1927).

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R7xGw TIL the 10th largest pyramid in the world is the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee

e0a7L TIL that a town in Nevada repels a semi-annual cricket invasion by blasting Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones. They were inspired by a story from the 1930s where a woman drove off crickets by using a Chinese gong, then tried rock music with her neighbours

QJX5p TIL A heavily pregnant Moroccan woman was scheduled for a c-section. She fled the hospital after watching another woman die during the procedure. 46 years later she was diagnosed with a tumor. The 'tumor' turned out to be the calcified baby still inside her.

4kK45 TIL We Might Have a Negative Leap Second. If UTC−UT1 (Figure 4) continues downward past −0.5 then we might need to have a minute with only 59 seconds for the first time ever. "We are almost as likely as not to experience a negative leap second in the next 12 years."

9vdp TIL: The President of Uruguay, José Mujica, donates 90% of his monthly salary to charity.