Post * vMV8 — Curious Curator

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TIL that during the Great Depression, people used small “coins” worth fractions of a cent to avoid paying too much extra sales tax on small purchases due to rounding.

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mxLJY TIL the expression "Polish parliament", an idiom referring to chaos and general disorder in an assembly, is used in all of the Scandinavian languages.

6B5l TIL that Steve Martin was never an actual cast member on SNL; he just made so many guest appearances that people assumed he was apart of the cast

pKdO TIL House of Cards had such an impact on British culture that some of the phrases including “You might very well think that; I couldn’t possibly comment” started to be used in the House of Commons.

VBOMm TIL that Phineas Gage survived an accident where a metal rod pierced his skull. It happened in 1948, while working on a new railroad line, a three-foot-long metal rod pierced his left cheek, passed behind his eye, and perforated part of his brain. He survived.

GAWmg TIL the younger sister of the famous writer Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front) was beheaded on 16.12.1943 in Berlin for antiwar and antinazi words.