Post * dDnQ7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Them!, released in 1954, was meant to be a color 3-D movie. However, a broken camera rig on day one of shooting forced the filmmakers to switch back to black and white. Critics later said this decision made it creepier.

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40na TIL: From having lived and worked in China, President Herbert Hoover and his wife were fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and would frequently have conversations in the language to prevent their staff from eavesdropping.

4kRDJ TIL employees at the General Motor’s Fremont Assembly plant were considered excessively unruly in the 1980s and often left empty glass bottles inside the doors of unfinished cars to annoy the future owners

GAebG TIL that the least common birth date (other than February 29th) is December 25th

n9nG TIL that Israel and India are the only two countries on earth who have banned cosmetics testing on animals

5V9rP TIL In Scotland, two students went to an art exhibition and left a pineapple on a table to see if it would become art. When they returned four days later, the pineapple was still there and had been covered with a glass display case