Post * DQGKD — Curious Curator

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TIL The swinging thing in the fireplace that scared the character Eleanor earlier in The Haunting (1999) movie was this prop representing Hugh Crane's head instead of the lion head flue.

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8erXL TIL that Akon's real name is "Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam"

nWNn7 TIL: Sam Warner Co-founder of Warner bros died of several tooth abscesses, After four surgeries to remove the infection, Warner slipped into a coma. He died of pneumonia caused by sinusitis, osteomyelitis and epidural and subdural abscess spread to his brain from his untreated cavities.

X0BMX TIL that, after the retirement of Pelé in 1977, much of the progress that American soccer had made during his stay was lost. There was no star player at the same level to replace him, so attendances dropped after 1980. The entire North American Soccer League folded at the end of 1984

6EoQX TIL Baroque composers Handel and Bach were born 26 days apart and lived 70 miles away from each other but had never met

YAnr TIL I learned of Neil Tillotson, the inventor of latex gloves and balloons. He was also the first voter in every American presidential primary and presidential election from 1960-2000.