Post * 4XZVR — Curious Curator

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TIL that when a trailer for "The Exorcist" was shown in theaters, it was reportedly so scary that people ran out of the theater , the trailer was banned, although you can watch it on YouTube.

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e0y1b TIL of 'teen courts,' which are used to prosecute adolescents in which the jury is made up of teenagers in order to lower the number of repeat offenders

8ayKZ TIL the Beatles were so bad live, you could not tell one song from the other. They played their last show in 1966.

p8ekG TIL- a baker's dozen became 13, because bakers feared flogging or fines by overcharging their customers.

pyJZ TIL that the creators of the Curious George children’s books, Hans and Margret Rey, fled Paris on bikes only hours before it fell to the Nazi’s

pPaG TIL the reason airplane bathrooms still have ashtrays is because of an FAA decision that some people will still smoke on an airplane even though it’s not allowed, and when they do there needs to be a safe place to put their cigarette butt.