Post * 4klkw — Curious Curator

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TIL that Hallmark movies have been airing since 1951, and many of the early films dramatized the lives of historical figures such as Florence Nightingale and Frederic Chopin.

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WkVpd TIL Rollercoasters can cure kidney stones by "literally rattling the stone loose."

wLJ0W TIL around 10% of the population of Canada were infected by the 2009 Swine Flu

wL1jE TIL that in order to argue before the US Supreme Court, you must be accepted by the Supreme Court Bar which has no test—but you do need to be sponsored by two existing members and "be of good moral and professional character," much like a country club

6EDNX TIL there is a mud volcano that has been erupting since May 2006 in Sidoarjo, Indonesia. Although it has been contained with levees, mud floodings are still an often recurrance disrupting local highways and villages

XElDk TIL Groundhog Day took its repeating time idea from an Oscar Nominated short film starring Kurtwood Smith called 12:01. The writer of the original story almost sued the producers of Groundhog Day but decided against it.