Post * A957 — Curious Curator

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TIL the audience at Woodstock, which had peaked at an estimated 400,000, was down to about 30,000 by the time Jimi Hendrix took the stage, many of whom merely waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving during his performance

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E1jdd TIL Britney Spears has an official music video where she is anime character that destroys a cloning laboratory. The song is pretty good too.

rR4Ow TIL Cyril of Alexandria claimed that “camel” is a Greek misspelling in the phrase “it’s easier for a camel to thread the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven.” He claimed camel was actually “kamilos,” meaning rope.

jN0mM TIL that the WWF'S Iron Sheik, whose shtick was to be pro Iranian and very anti-American (usually alongside Nikolai Volkoff in the 80s), had previously been an assistant coach on the U.S. National Wrestling Team during the Olympics.

KY6P4 TIL Flagstaff Arizona was the world's first International Dark Sky City and you can see the Milky Way at night from downtown

4NYb TIL the reason behind the name of the 1918 Spanish Flu: In the warring US, France, Germany, and Britain, censors suppressed word of the plague to maintain morale. But in neutral Spain, papers were allowed to report on it, giving the impression Spain was especially hard hit.