Post * 9wvAp — Curious Curator

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TIL that Halle Berry accepted her Razzie award for Catwoman by bringing her Oscar onstage and doing a parody of her emotional academy award acceptance speech.

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XOwX TIL child actor Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer was killed by a single gunshot wound to the groin while fighting over $50.

LKr9 TIL In 1973, the US government stopped research into thorium based nuclear reactors as, unlike Uranium reactors, their byproducts could not be used to make nuclear weapons

VB154 TIL: NY, NJ, MA, and MN addresses paranormal activity in their real estate disclosure laws. In NJ, a seller must inform the buyer that their property is haunted if asked and in New York, a home sale is rescinded if the seller creates and perpetuates a reputation that the home is haunted.

pY8AA TIL that Neuticles are implantable fake dog testicles invented by Gregg Miller, a man who believed that neutered male dogs really miss their balls a lot. The first commercially implanted Neuticles went into a dog in 1995 with over half a million pairs sold since at an average cost of $310 per pair.

oROd7 TIL that the Great Wall of China was not built as a single continuous wall, but rather as a series of walls and fortifications constructed by various dynasties over centuries. The most well-known sections were built during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).