Post * 9YgWX — Curious Curator

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TIL How William Shakespeare’s name is spelled is unknown, even to himself. His contemporaries spelled it more than 80 different ways, including “Shappere” and “Shaxberd”. It turns out, he never used “William Shakespeare” once

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PLyw TIL Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was a box office failure because mothers thought the lessons were “too cruel” for children to understand

E7g0 TIL that Psychological research shows that roughhousing is important to childhood development. It teaches communications skills, rule negotiation, and how to communicate verbally and non verbally. In reality, children not allowed to horseplay are more likely to be more violent later in life.

8vEZ TIL Dwayne Johnson was Tim Burton’s second choice to play the role of Willy Wonka in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.

nn8P TIl Politicians in the US gov spend $50,000 (each) of taxpayer’s money on self portrait oil paintings.

P47E TIL Nikola Tesla was born during a fierce lightning storm. According to family legend, midway through the birth, the midwife wrung her hands and declared the lightning a bad omen. This child will be a child of darkness, she said, to which his mother replied: “No. He will be a child of light.”