Post * 84RV — Curious Curator

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TIL John Stewart read every book from the authors he had on The Daily Show.

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OA8a TIL that Steven Spielberg had acquired the rights to Ghost in the Shell, which will be made into a live action movie that is prospected to have Scarlett Johanson as leading actress

D4OY TIL that some cultures believed Vampires were arithmomaniacs and if you were being chased you could throw a handful of rice at them to forced the Vampire to stop and count each grain. This could also be the origin of “The Count” from Sesame Street.

GYR0N TIL that a man named Ted Jorgensen had abandoned his son at birth and decades later got a visit from a biographer who walked in his bike shop asking about his son who he had never heard of before that moment, Jeff Bezos.

PYMVe TIL the only way Louis Pasteur was able to study rabies was to keep a supply of infected animals in the laboratory. His assistants routinely pinned down rabid dogs and collected vials of their foamy saliva and were under orders to shoot anyone that was bitten by the animals in the head

dDXZE TIL that when writing the Seinfeld episode The Conversion, Bruce Kirschbaum didn't know that the Latvian Orthodox Church was real; he intended for George to join a fictional sect. After the episode aired he received hundreds of thank you notes from members of the church for bringing attention to it.