Post * xVbo — Curious Curator

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TIL That the most unlikely Celebs are geniuses (Dolph Lundgren!)

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ojgo TIL of the Reverse Tinkerbell Effect, an expression that stipulates that the more people believe in something, the more likely it is to vanish; If more people view cars as being safe to drive, the less safe they become as more people tend to drive without caution.

mxY1p TIL Australia once had a tumbleweed so large they named it "hairy panic"

VBjwZ TIL Nicole Kidman has now worked with 19 female directors in eight years, after vowing to do so, because “things only change by actually being in the films of women.”

Y7L6r TIL that Jack Nicholson grew up believing his biological mother was his sister, and his biological grandmother was his mother. He found out the truth at 37 years old - when both of them had passed away.

xVA85 TIL that during WW1 the British used semen as invisible ink, and the name of the man who invented this technique was “Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming”