Post * EKGW — Curious Curator

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TIL Jon Stewart was a skilled soccer player in college and represented the US at the Pan American Maccabi Games in Brazil in 1983.

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DQXOr TIL Little Shop of Horrors (1960) directed by Roger Corman, was made in only 5 days. Three days of cast rehearsals, immediately followed by two days and one night of principal photography.

0ekA TIL the term “running amok,” used for when something gets out of hand, is named after random unprovoked murder frenzies in Malaysian culture

0w6Y1 TIL blue M&M food dye reduces paralysis from spinal injuries - but turns you blue

mxYbR TIL in 1925, two medical students received a cadaver and a challenge. In response, they spent 1,500 hours dissecting a human nervous system -- beginning at the base of the brain and working downward -- leaving the system intact in one continuous piece.

loXoA TIL of Billy, an enslaved man from Virginia who was charged with treason during the American Revolution. He won his case by arguing that, as a slave, he was not a citizen and thus could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance.