Post * 7rDop — Curious Curator

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TIL that Japan already had HDTV in the 1990s, way before anywhere else

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epWEk TIL the company that makes ‘Baby Ruth’ candy sued Babe Ruth for company infringement when he tried to create his own candy company. They claimed it was named after Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth, who had died 17 years before the candy hit the market. Babe Ruth lost the suit.

dDr7 TIL that Jack Gleeson’s portrayal of Joffrey Baratheon is influenced by Joaquin Phoenix’s performance in Gladiator

xOJw TIL that in 2014 Toshiba has repurposed its floppy disk factory, that hasn’t been used for nearly two decades into a vegetable farm

kOnd4 TIL In June 2013, a fossil analysis discovered a large lizard in Myanmar. The extinct reptile was given the moniker Barbaturex morrisoni in honor of Morrison. "This is a king lizard, and he was the lizard king, so it just fit," said Jason Head, a paleontologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

VMN0p TIL that Tim Burton made a tribute short stop-motion film for my distant ancestor Vincent Price, who also narrated it.