Post * wnj6 — Curious Curator

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TIL Michael Cain was in “Jaws The Revenge” only for the pay-check and said, “I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”

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Z8X1D TIL that Sierra Leone is objectively the roundest country, followed by Nauru, Zimbabwe, the Vatican City, and Poland. The least round country (excluding scattered archipelagos) is Chile

X0EgR TIL about "mundane science fiction," a sci-fi literary movement driven by creating plausible extensions of existing science and technology; situating stories on Earth or within the Solar System, thereby lacking the use of interstellar or intergalactic travel; and not considering contact with aliens.

woYp8 TIL: Tom Brady was selected in the 18th round of the 1995 MLB draft by the Montreal Expos (so he was technically the last active Expos draft pick)

GAoP7 TIL that the national animal of Scotland is a unicorn.

p8W58 Til in 2012, before the introduction of Uber, a Toronto Taxi license was sold for $360,000. By 2018 they were rumored to be down to $65,000 and likely still dropping.