Post * 78R4b — Curious Curator

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TIL "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" was banned in Malaysia solely because of the title as "Morphin" was determined to be too easily confused with the drug "Morphine"

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6EXE7 TIL Bill Gates accidentally got into philanthropy after he and his wife accidentally came across extremely impoverished people while they were sight seeing. He now says philanthropy is the "best job in the world."

b6v49 TIL the writer of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Faculty also created Dawson’s Creek

wXE7 TIL that Florida passed a law requiring toddlers in state-run schools to listen to classical music every day, and in 1998 the governor of Georgia budgeted $105,000 per year to provide every child born in Georgia with a tape or CD of classical music.

4Xw96 TIL bootlegger Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton killed himself rather than report to federal prison after being convicted of moonshining offences. He prepared his grave footstone years in advance and had it by his front porch and kept his casket in his living room. The epitaph read, "Popcorn Said Fuck You."

7reM TIL As part of an experiment, 12 people faked brief auditory hallucinations to gain admission to psychiatric hospitals. Once in they behaved normally, but 11 were misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. It was only other patients - not any doctors or nurses - who realized they were sane.