Post * BgQde — Curious Curator

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TIL there is a Family Guy-themed English karaoke bar in Osaka Japan called--what else?--The Drunken Clam.

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lorAK TIL In 2011 it came to light a forger had fooled one of NYC's most elite art galleries into selling $80M worth of fake art despite the forger misspelling Jackson Pollock in the signature (dropped the "c", whoops!) and using paint that was not available at the time the painting was allegedly painted

PGkO TIL Derek Amato is one of just 30 “acquired savants” worldwide. After been taken to hospital with a serious concussion from a diving accident, he sat down at a piano and discovered he was a musical genius.

OGelR TIL of Edward Barton-Wright, one of the first European practitioners of Japanese martial arts. He worked as an Antimony smelter in Japan, where he learned 2 styles of jujitsu. Upon returning to England he opened a school that taught a style named Bartitsu which combined jujitsu, boxing and savate.

KOn1R TIL: In the 11th century, Spain was 80% Muslim.

JYgDB TIL Kurt Cobain admitted when he wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit he was trying to write the ultimate pop song. “I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies.”