Post * y04w — Curious Curator

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TIL that Cast Away’s unopened FedEx box contained two bottles of salsa verde (per a deleted scene in the script)

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NXpMJ TIL that the human stomach can dissolve razor blades

1aprd TIL that Soviet forces literally buried their tanks in the ground to turn them into stationary turrets at the Battle of Kursk. And it worked.

QNxQ6 TIL that the CPR doll is modeled after a real person. Her name was L'Inconnue de la Seine and she drowned in a river near Paris. She has come to be known as “the most kissed face in the world”.

N7odJ TIL that during the mid-20th century, the leading British neurologist was a man named Russell Brain.

ZGjD TIL a study by British sociologists found 7 distinct social classes: Elite, Established middle class, Traditional working class, Technical middle class, Emergent service workers, New affluent workers and Precariat. Whom people know and what they do contribute to their class as much as income.