Post * 6dJl — Curious Curator

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TIL in a 2011 Brazilian prison riot, the inmates decapitated 6 pedophiles and refused to stop rioting until their demands were met which included “two pounds(one kilogram) of marijuana, a television set, fans to cool the cells and the right to receive home cooked meals.”

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B9lb TIL that two researchers, funded by the British government, developed a mathematical formula for the “perfect human voice.” The male voices that matched most closely were Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons; the closest matching female voices were Judi Dench, Mariella Frostrup, and Honor Blackman.

jlBp TIL Drake Bell, despite having little music success in the U.S., has multiple top 10 singles and albums in Mexico

MeLXB TIL that the trope of pirates saying "ARRR" was popularised by actor Robert Newton who played Long John Silver in the 1950 Disney film. In Treasure Island, Long John Silver is from the west country and so Newton took slang from the region and exaggerated it. "ooh arr" means "yes"

78a0P TIL that a man accidentally got shot in the head by a particle accelerator back in 1978 and is still alive

W7MO9 TIL John Hawkins was the first Englishman to profit off of the triangle trade of enslaved Africans to the Americas. Harkins' journeys also brought the sweet potato and tobacco to England.