Post * E1BJW — Curious Curator

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TIL that despite censoring "dirty" language in songs, Kidz Bop has been criticized due to changing ONLY individual lyrics and not the overall meaning and themes of songs. A University of Colorado professor called Kidz Bop "an abomination" due to it only censoring lyrics and not the overall content.

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JY9yl TIL John Lennon hated his own voice and loved to double-track his records. He would often ask the producer, George Martin: "Can't you smother it with tomato ketchup or something?"

p8Knb TIL that bees can be trained to detect diseases, like cancer, in their early stages by sensing the disease in the patient's breath due to their extremely strong sense of smell

Bg86e TIL of boxer Ezzard Charles, often considered the greatest light heavyweight. Charles the only one to go the full distance (15 rounds) against Rocky Marciano, had killed an opponent in the ring and Muhammad Ali wrote in his autobiography that Charles could have matched Ali during Ali’s prime.

yQpxM TIL that when euro bank notes were issued in 2002, they featured fictional bridges, so as not to cause a row amongst EU member countries. 10 years later, however, an architect for the town of Spijkenisse claimed them for the Netherlands by building all seven of them on a single waterway.

DQ4Rp TIL the combine harvester's name is derived from the fact it combines four different operations in the harvesting process into a single machine (reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing)