Post * 1agBV — Curious Curator

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TIL that it was only after Mel Gibson personally underwrote Robert Downey Jr's liability insurance that his career took off again

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R768 TIL that in the “Plato’s Stepchildren” episode of Star Trek William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols deliberately flubbed every take of a scene where they did NOT kiss, thus forcing the episode to go out with the kiss intact.

J1VV4 TIL of Ol’ Rip, a horned toad who was entombed in a time capsule in Texas in 1897 and allegedly emerged alive 31 years later, thereafter becoming a national celebrity

44wN TIL Daredevil and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created in the same traffic accident

GYVr4 TIL social network Bebo was bought by AOL for US$850 million. 5 years later, the original owners bought it back for US$1 million.

lo7OA Yes, but no more than listening to Justin Bieber. The misconception that there's something unique about Mozart's ability to increase brainpower began in 1993, with a paper in Nature. Neurobiologists Gordon Shaw, Frances Rauscher and Katherine Ky of the University of California at Irvine found that students who listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata demonstrated a temporary increase in spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by an IQ test.