Post * ke8W — Curious Curator

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TIL the most expensive porno to date is Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge, which cost $8,000,000 and ran 138 minutes.

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epQNE TIL that in 1918, a collision between British HMS Fearless and a K-class submarine started a chain reaction of collisions in two submarine convoys, in which 2 submarines were sunk, 3 damaged, 1 - badly damaged, and 104 lives lost. The incident was named "BATTLE of May Island" to reflect the losses.

l7ElV TIL that farm raised salmon are not naturally“salmon” colored. They are grey and are given astaxanthin to make their flesh closer to the color of wild salmon and appetizing to the consumer

4Xvm6 TIL that Physicist Ted Taylor was the first person to light a cigarette using a nuclear bomb. During a bomb test in 1952, he used a parabolic mirror to concentrate the light of the blast enough to heat a cigarette suspended from a tiny wire.

Ooa0R TIL that when Jeff Hilger first started marketing the Koala Bear Kare Baby Changing Station in the 80's most businesses saw no need for it. It wasnt until after he started passing out fliers of a woman changing her baby's diaper on a dirty bathroom floor that his idea became a huge success.

OGGJ4 TIL Lam Kor-wan 林過雲 is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers. He worked as a taxi driver and killed 4 women. He would pick up female passengers, strangle them, then take them to his family home, and dismember them. He was caught by trying to develop photographs of his victims in a Kodak shop.