Post * grwJX — Curious Curator

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TIL Costa Rica was the third country in the world after the U.S. and Canada to have a McDonald’s location

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e0LZ6 TIL camel and goat eyes are ovals to better control light input and are horizontal for a 'panoramic view' that blocks light from above and below. Cats and predators are vertical slits for judging distance without moving the head. Cats eyes alone have ~9x more control over light than humans.

XbaD TIL the airplane which was featured in The Dark Knight Rises’ plane scene actually crashed with no survirors a year after the film was released

Lklwv TIL London is the largest urban forest in the world: with more than 8 million trees - about one for every Londoner - the capital of the UK is literally classified as a forest in its own right.

e068b TIL Vanna White, the lady on Wheel of Fortune who touches the letters when contestants choose them, makes $8 million per year and has a net worth of $140 million

0wWp TIL that in Reservoir Dogs, the person Mr. Pink pulls out of her car is the same person that gets shot by Marcellus Wallace after the car wreck in Pulp Fiction.