Post * 4XllX — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Clash song Garageland was inspired by a critic's comment that "The Clash are the sort of garage band that should be speedily returned to the garage, preferably with the motor still running".

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GMkG TIL that in 1958 in Monroe, North Carolina, two black boys, 7-old David Simpson and 9-old James Hanover Thompson, were arrested after being kissed by a white girl on their cheeks in a neighborhood game. They were charged with molestation and sent to reform school.

v1RmB TIL the song 'Die Eier Von Satan' by Tool is just a cookie recipe read very aggressively auf Duetsche.

n9b7 TIL That there is a disease called “Skinny Pants Syndrome,” wherein damage is caused to one’s legs from his pants being too tight.

5bdn TIL that after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling which ended US segregation, the governor of Arkansas surrounded an all white high school with National Guard troops. President Eisenhower responded by nationalizing the Arkansas National Guard

QJgVX TIL that at least twice, CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta has been on location reporting, but needed to step in as a neurosurgeon: once on a Marine in Iraq, the other on a little girl injured during the Haitian earthquake.