Post * 9YLX7 — Curious Curator

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TIL about Frank "Sugarchile" Robinson, who taught himself to play piano at the age of two, played with Lionel Hampton when he was 5, was the first black entertainer at the White House Correspondents dinner when he was 8, recorded for Capitol Records (with two hits) from 9-12 then retired from music

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07A1 TIL HAL Laboratory’s (creators of Kirby and Super Smash Bros.) name was created to put them one step ahead of IBM with each letter

dDLZ TIL Hebrew was almost dead, until a guy locked his kid in their house, spoke only Hebrew to him, and invented a ton of the words.

VBMA0 TIL In WW1, artist Johannes Koelz received an Iron Cross for bravery in rescuing a comrade from behind enemy lines. Years later he fell out of favour with the Nazis, but the man they sent to arrest him was the very man whose life he'd saved, and he allowed Koelz 48 hours to escape

LQoVv TIL that Stuart Little isn't a mouse, he's a normal boy in "every way except that he is only just over two inches tall and looks exactly like a mouse."

b9ZKN TIL In 1867, a jar was found in Paris containing a human rib among other artifacts, and a label claiming that they belonged to Joan of Arc. Tests conducted in 2006 revealed that they came not from Joan of Arc, but an Egyptian mummy.