Post * mKrR — Curious Curator

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TIL Quentin Tarantino didn’t go to film school, and has said “When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, ‘No, I went to films’.”

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Z8BEa TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci invented ball bearings - a friction-reducing part without which no modern machinery would be possible

W7gPA TIL about Emperor Norton I, the only Emperor of the United States of America. He was a San Francisco citizen who declared himself Emperor in 1859, and everyone just went along with it. He was beloved by the people of the city and over 10,000 of them attended his funeral.

N7DwN TIL One nuclear fuel pellet, roughly the size of a pencil eraser, provides as much energy as one ton of coal or nearly 150 gallons of oil.

XE61X TIL that Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania & South Sudan have kicked off a process to unify with a single constitution, common market & currency

newed TIL Great white sharks rarely survive in captivity. Experts suspect being surrounded by glass might either confuse or overload the shark's electroreception system, which is used to sense the electrical signals given off by fish in the open ocean, not necessarily inside a glass box.