Post * epd4k — Curious Curator

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TIL that in Star Wars Ep. 1 when they first meet Anakin in the shop, in the background there's an empty shell of a protocol droid- the suit is actually the costume for C-3PO from the original series.

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NX8LQ TIL the smallest statue in London of two mice fighting over a piece of cheese might have been created to honor two construction workers who died in the 1860's when they were fighting over a sandwich and fell from the building 🐀🧀

16JQP TIL that Poinsettias come from Mexico. The Aztecs call them (Nahuatl language) cuetlaxochitl ̶ xochitl. The name Poinsettia, is in honour of Joel Roberts Poinsett, a US envoy in Mexico City who introduced the plant to the US and Europe.

ne4Jo TIL of Centralia, PA: A town mostly abandoned since an underground mine fire started in 1962 and still burns to this day. In 2002 the town had its zip code revoked after the graves started burning. The EPA warns: “Walking and/or driving in the immediate area could result in serious injury or death.”

e0gnE TIL The Uzi submachine is named after the inventor, Uziel Gal. Gal designed the weapon in 1948 and in 1951 it was officially adopted by the Israel Defense Forces. Gal did not want the weapon to be named after him but his request was ignored.

grKGX TIL When Tsarevich Nicholas(later Nicholas II) visited Japan in 1891, an attermpt on his life was made by a man wielding a katana. His cousin, Prince George of Greece, saved his life by parrying the sword with his cane