Post * nWjXG — Curious Curator

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TIL James Cameron once paid a $1 million ransom to help free Guillermo Del Toro’s father from kidnappers.

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6bEQ TIL at a Marine Mammal Studies Institute, dolphins were trained to turn in trash that fell into the pools in exchange for fish. One dolphin was smart enough to hide pieces of paper under a rock, tearing off smaller pieces from the paper in order to get more fish out of it.

MeJYB TIL of Vesta Stoudt. During World War 2, she came up with the idea for duct tape at her factory job. After her supervisors rejected the idea, she wrote president Roosevelt, he liked the idea and gave the letter to the War Production Board

R50m7 TIL: That weird European helmet with a spike coming out of the top isn't supposed to be a horn; they're so you can wear an animal's tail hair. (You'd tie a plume of your horse's hair together & stab it onto the spike.)

Vvop TIL Roy Orbison wore sunglasses when performing simply because he had left his eyeglasses on an airplane. This forced him to to wear his prescription sunglasses on stage, and he found he preferred it.

ADp8B TIL that uncooked spaghetti always break into more than two parts, a curious fact that already baffled Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman. The riddle was only solved last year by scientists who managed to make spaghetti snap into only two parts with a trick.