Post * E11oP — Curious Curator

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TIL Smelly Cat from Friends had a music video

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9Y6RD TIL that "Song 2" by Blur was intended to be a parody of grunge culture, but was unironically accepted by the very culture it was parodying

loZja TIL about the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite group of Theban Greek warriors composed of 150 couples of male lovers.

6E5pY TIL about a shortage of dwarf actors to play the Oompa Loompas in 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory', as the Nazis had killed most of the dwarves during WW2.

W6A8 TIL Punxsutawney Phil performs worse at predicting the weather by his shadow than he would by chance

VMdGQ TIL Polar bears often hunt walruses by simply charging at a group of them and eating the ones that were crushed or wounded in the mass panic to escape. Direct attacks are rare.