Post * E1Eao — Curious Curator

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TIL that the show Scrubs has one of the most accurate portrayals of the actual way a hospital runs and all of its medical cases are taken from real life medical cases.

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RQ6l TIL of ‘Red Shirt Guy’ who stumped a panel of World Of Warcraft devs during a Q&A at BlizzCon, 2010, after asking about an inconsistency in the lore. Later, an NPC was introduced into the game who wore a bright red shirt and was named Wildhammer Fact Checker.

b6lR9 TIL that the common human silhouette found on many traffic/information signs is unofficially referred to as "Helvetica Man", due to its near-universal acceptance.

8W7a TIL: Upon seeing the movie “Pink Flamingos” Rodger Ebert said: I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos, because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object.

oBGVE TIL that in 2015, two day care teachers were charged with child abuse for running a toddler Fight Club in Cranford, NY, where they'd pit children aged 4 to 6 against each other, record it while quoting the book and movie and post it on Snapchat.

8e6RK TIL that in 2014, Red Bull reached a $13 million settlement to resolve two class action lawsuits for falsely claiming that ingredients in the drink were performance enhancing without scientific studies to prove it.