Post * v1kYR — Curious Curator

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TIL Yellow Watermelons exist, and were cultivated before red Watermelon we're all familiar with. They're said to have a "honey like" flavor.

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kVO5 TIL a Chinese beggar whose hands were ruined in an explosion spent a decade designing a new type of two-handed calligraphy. The result was so impressive that China’s largest font maker gave him a design contract with 50 years of royalties and helped to get him off the streets.

jgMR TIL the Waldorf School in Silicon Valley—where many Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard employees send their children—has no computers or screens of any kind

m1Z7P TIL about the Cottingley Fairies, a hoax made by 2 young girls, that claimed to have photographed fairies in their back yard. They managed to fool Arthur Conan Doyle with this hoax.

W76rA TIL that under Writers Guild of America rules the phrases "written by", "story by", "screen story by" and "screenplay by" all have different, and precise, meanings.

W7N58 TIL South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone's first job in Hollywood was directing a short film for Universal Studios staring Steven Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone, Demi Moore and Michael J. Fox.