Post * 7rJOL — Curious Curator

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TIL George R.R. Martin wrote a Christmas Episode of Max Headroom

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RVpl TIL that Clint Eastwood bought David Webb Peoples’ script for The Unforgiven in 1976 and sat on it for 15 years until he was old enough to play the lead role of William Munny

699w TIL that the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle nebula were most likely destroyed by a supernova 6,000 years ago, the blast and destruction of which we won’t see for another 1,000 years

XGRQ TIL that Fazal Din a soldier in the British Indian Army was impaled by a Japanese officers sword. He then turned the tables by removing the sword from his chest and killing 3 japanese Soldiers, 1 of which an officer.

kJZrg TIL that the Americano cocktail was made in Milan at Caffe Campari, the birthplace of Campari in the 1860s. An American man ordered a Campari and soda and he claimed it was too bitter. Several attempts later, he and the bartender toasted their triumph: an addition of vermouth to create the Americano

m1O7O TIL Matt Groening (Creator of the Simpsons) had Marge and Homer Simpson named after his mother and father, Lisa and Maggie Simpson after his younger sisters, and Abraham Simpson after his own grandfather.