Post * gM9wb — Curious Curator

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TIL because the producers of The Lord of the Rings had difficulty finding men with horseback riding experience to play the extra soldiers, many of the "Riders of Rohan" were actually women.

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oBW9r TIL Japan is Having a Shortage of Ninjas Despite Offering $85,000 Salary

rROaM TIL that a strain of genital warts from SE Asia appears to be older than Homo sapiens and might have been acquired through intimate contact with a now extinct human species

5de9 TIL that before the advent of air travel, landowners used to own an infinitely tall column of air rising above their property. Today there’s no official verdict on where property rights end, but U.S. policy is that anything above 500 feet is navigable airspace.

rNaW4 TIL Jerry Lawler of WWE fame began a feud with comedian Andy Kaufman, wrestling him and slapping him on TV while Kaufman shouted profanities and threw coffee in his face. Later, as himself in Man on the Moon, he stated that his feud with Kaufman was staged and the two had actually been very close.

p8j5O TIL that the oldest dingo fossils in Australia are about 4,000 years old, so dingoes’ ancestors must have reached Australia by boat. Whole-genome studies consistently place dingoes between wolves and wolflike dog breeds.