Post * xaA5 — Curious Curator

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TIL People are using discarded Christmas trees to catch sand and naturally rebuild sand dunes destroyed by hurricane Sandy

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Bgx9e TIL of the Hockey-Falco thesis which says the renaissance realist painters used devices made with mirrors and pinholes to project an image of the subject onto a canvas, the painter would then simply trace over the image to make the painting. It's also used to forge famous paintings.

7rPDL TIL the very last WWI veteran died in 2012 at age 110. Florence Green had joined Britain's Women’s Royal Air Force in 1918 at age 17.

gKJb TIL Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams hated each other while filming The Notebook

xVdO5 TIL Paper Strength is measured in Kilometers, as a way to describe if a sheet of that paper measured that long would be vertically hung, it would tear on its own weight. That is to say, if a paper has strength of 14 Kilometers, a 14 Km long sheet would have to be vertically hung for it to tear.

9wBaM TIL Malcom X had Red Hair