Post * woMpo — Curious Curator

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TIL this gif is NOT Zach Galifianakis. It is Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson.

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LkWv0 TIL in 1974 Stephen King sold the publishing rights to his first novel, “Carrie,” for $2500 plus royalties. One year later the paperback version was sold for $400,000 plus royalties.

N7ylE TIL Jack Black's older half brother, Neil Siegel, is a prolific computer scientist and engineer who has developed key systems for the US military and inventions that make GPS possible in our phones.

RQ49 TIL that Hempcrete is a hemp-based concrete alternative that turns to Limestone by absorbing CO2 during the first 100 years after it’s cast, making it a truly carbon negative building material.

VMW9p TIL of Trish Vickers, a blind author who wrote 26 pages of her first novel without realising her pen had run out of ink. The local police force used their forensic lab to find the missing words, and the book was published on the day of her death.

R7mll TIL the HongKong Dollar being pegged to the US Dollar at a rate of 7.80 under the linked exchange rate system, where the government does not control the supply/demand in the foreign exchange market, exchange rate is stabilised by arbitrage where banks sell HongKong Dollar at a gain/loss.