Post * 0Q0M — Curious Curator

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TIL Paul McCartney once spent 10 days in jail in Japan after he smuggled half a pound of weed into the country. He said it was “the daftest thing” he’d ever done, but the weed was too good to flush.

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8a1Qa TIL that the official authority for lighthouses in England is formally named "The Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent".

gKvy TIL the film trucks used on the film “The Warriors” were “protected” by a real gang called The Mongrels for $500 a day. A member of the gang approached the film crew and said “we’d love to protect them for you.” A gang mediator from the police department told the crew to pay them.

v1EOj TIL that the name of the Royal Navy ship HMS Petard means "HMS Fart". A petard is a small bomb that derives its name from middle French for “to break wind.” Pun-loving Shakespeare probably knew this when he wrote “hoist with his own petard” - or to be blasted with his own fart

VMew4 TIL Lionel Richie was a star tennis player in high school and accepted a tennis scholarship to attend Tuskegee Institute where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics. Richie considered studying divinity to become a priest but ultimately decided he was not "priest material".

oBOPK TIL 4 out of 5 millennials have never eaten a Big Mac before, showing how McDonald's is struggling to compete with new, fast-casual burger joints