Post * D1ePg — Curious Curator

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TIL As a Joke, the Original Looney Tunes Animators Created a Scene Where Porky Pig Uses Profanity. It Was Never Supposed to Leave the Studio...

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6x4w TIL that English composer Jeremiah Clarke couldn’t decide whether to commit suicide by hanging or drowning himself, so he flipped a coin. The coin landed on its edge in the mud, so he went home and shot himself instead.

dpW7 TIL that Jupiter is so massive that rather than orbiting the Sun, they both orbit a point in space between them.

oRM9R TIL that Papua New Guinea still recognizes the British monarch as their ceremonial head of state.

OGo5X TIL there is a species of bird that has only been found once. A Red Sea Cliff Swallow was found in Sudan in 1984, and a second bird of this species has never been found. There is not enough conclusive evidence to say it matches any other species of swallow, so it is still listed as its own species.

9Yn7Q TIL as homage and in-joke, Quentin Tarantino named Mike Myers character from Inglourious Basterds "General Ed Feneche" to honor 1970s era Italian scream queen and sex symbol Edwige Fenech.