Post * 8aeP8 — Curious Curator

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TIL The Twilight Zone was initially a difficult series to sell, and critics were not impressed. In a 1959 interview with Rod Serling, Mike Wallace asked: "You're going to be working so hard on The Twilight Zone that, in essence, you've given up on writing anything important for television, right?".

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AKVx TIL of a town in Kazakhstan, residents of which suffer from an unkown anomaly: they fall asleep in broad daylight and suffer from hallucinations, dizziness, weakness and memory loss. Scientists call is a ‘sleep epidemic’ and can’t explain the reasons for this phenomenon.

nW0eW TIL that Agent detection is the tendency to assume purposeful action by an intelligent being in ambiguous situations. This likely evolved because assuming a predator or threat was present improved chances of survival.

4XjBb TIL Florida is second to Alaska for highest number of breeding pairs of Bald Eagles in the US. Hawaii is the only state where you can’t find Bald Eagles.

yj0e TIL - If you wanted to buy a single rare Dutch tulip bulb in 1636, all it would cost you is: 2 lasts of wheat, 4 lasts of rye, 4 fat oxen, 8 fat swine, 12 fat sheep, 2 hogheads of wine, 4 turns of beer, 2 tons of butter, 1000lbs of cheese, a complete bed, a suit of clothes, & a silver drinking cup.

MBy7 TIL that in 1945 Walt Disney and the surrealist Salvador Dali attempted to make a short film together.They never finished it, but in 1999 Roy E. Disney found the film (while making fantasia 2000) and completed it.