Post * b6mA4 — Curious Curator

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TIL a 16-years-old Audrey Hepburn became a volunteer nurse in a Dutch hospital and helped a young British paratrooper named Terence Young, her future director over 20 years later in “Wait Until Dark” (1967).

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R879 TIL that one unique danger of working in a tryworks (whaling industry furnace) was that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, “ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man”

dD4Vd TIL that Marmite does not have an expiration date. The only thing that changes is that the vitamins decrease in potency.

JAoB TIL that emperors are recognized above kings in rank and that the only monarch in the entire world that is still officially acknowledged as ‘emperor’ is the emperor of Japan, Akihito.

AD187 TIL that the country with the highest number of millionaires immigrating is Australia - in 2018, Australia had a net inflow of 12000 millionaires (the USA had a net inflow of 10000, Canada had 4000, and Switzerland had 3000)

VBmnm TIL that the 2011 film “The Worst Movie Ever!”, unintentionally, had the worst box office opening ever recorded. One single person paid admission to see the film during its premiere, earning it a whopping $11.