Post * E1A50 — Curious Curator

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TIL: Jack Nicholson made nearly $90 million for playing Joker in Batman

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7bEP TIL the game Twister was nearly killed in its crib when the Sears catalog rejected it for being too sexy. But just as the makers were about to give up, the game was saved by Johnny Carson, who played Twister with blonde bombshell Eva Gabor on The Tonight Show, and sales soared into the millions.

JYbdQ TIL that Ivory soap floats because it’s whipped with tiny air bubbles that make it less dense than water. An employee had accidentally left a batch of soap to mix while for too long while he was on lunch break and the rest is history.

XEG7R TIL The 1st ever jazz recording was offered to Freddie Keppard, but he refused: instead, that honour went to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, an all-white band, who had a $million hit "Livery Stable Blues", which came from a song Keppard had performed.

KOj86 TIL that George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, has his own fire department with one fire truck. He originally had two but donated one to the Muir Beach Fire Department. There are 12 firefighters in his department and they protect his land and surrounding areas from wild fires.

LM4r TIL There are TWO actors who have been killed by a Predator, an Alien and a Terminator : Lance Henriksen AND Bill Paxton