Post * jNArX — Curious Curator

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TIL The break-in at the Watergate Hotel was discovered by a security guard, Frank Wills, who removed a piece of tape from the latch on a security door. When he came back later, the door had been re-taped, so he called police.

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Q9ZM TIL that Australians spread margarine or butter on white bread, douse it in sprinkles, call it fairy bread and then eat it as a dessert.

4X7dJ TIL of the Burnden Park Disaster, a crowd crush at a football match in Bolton, England in 1946 in which 33 people were killed. 30 minutes after the crush, with the dead laying at the side of the pitch, the game restarted.

7rKBL TIL Twenty One Pilots is the only act in history to have two entire albums worth of songs certified Gold or Platinum. No other artist has ever achieved this.

kZk4 TIL that 3 masked burglars unknowingly broke into Dolph Lundgren’s home and tied up and threatened his wife. They fled when they found a family photo and realised who owned the house.

YpmDB TIL learned film giant Kodak went from 1.4 billion in profits in 2000 to bankruptcy in 2012, mainly due to not predicting the rise of online photo sharing and smartphone cameras.