Post * E1GQo — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1829, when pirates attacked a US ship, a man onboard managed to avoid their attention by dressing up as a priest. He put on black gown and a wide brimmed hat and stayed in his cabin. When the pirates found him, they made the sign of the cross and left. He was the only one not to be robbed.

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VL0B TIL that Warner Bros executives didn’t like the idea of Tim Burton killing off Jack Nicholson’s character in the movie, Mars Attacks! In response, Burton had Nicholson then play two characters and killed both of them off.

nWDJW TIL: That the word "Eurovision" was first used as a telecommunications term in the United Kingdom in 1951, in reference to a programme by the BBC being relayed by Dutch television, and was subsequently used as the title for the union's new transmission network upon its creation in 1954.

pY5mA TIL Beaver anal secretions have been used as a vanilla flavor substitute for certain foods and luxury cosmetics.

8onV TIL that author Anaïs Nin juggled two husbands (one in NY, one in LA) who only knew of each other after her death. To maintain the double life, she kept a “lie box” containing two sets of prescriptions and chequebooks in different names.

Envp TIL that in 1899 a bolt of lightning killed a man as he stood in his backyard in taranto, italy thirty years later his son was killed in the same way and in the place. On October 8, 1949 Rolla primarda, the grandson of the first victim and the son of the second, became the third