Post * wLo97 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in many American movies, the directors often edit out many of the hits, if not all during fight scenes, and that in Hong Kong cinema, especially Jackie Chan movies, they show the hit twice.

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LXBd TIL Sweden will import 800,000 tonnes of trash each year to satisfy its waste-to-energy plants – waste conscious Swedes have been recycling so efficiently, the country doesn’t have enough of its own trash to burn.

AeK4 TIL Charlie Chaplain was slandered, investigated, and banned from the USA in 1952 by the FBI for openly criticising War and Xenophobia. It would be 20 years before he was allowed to return.

ynlv TIL that the fire hydrant is believed to have been invented by an engineer named Frederick Graff, but this can’t be verified because the patent was destroyed in a fire at the patent office in 1836.

LkoPd TIL that 707,088 people in the 1931 Polish census were recorded as speaking 'local', rather than any recognized language.

5VMDB TIL that in 2021 an Italian artist sold an invisible sculpture for £13,000 and gave the buyer a certificate of authenticity to prove it is real