Post * EgZRd — Curious Curator

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TIL Rick James and Neil Young were in a band together Called the Mynah Birds.

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Wkjbd TIL many car commercials use a vehicle called the "Mill Blackbird" to film their commercials, and use CGI to make the vehicle look like the car they're advertising.

0an5 TIL that there is a cafe/concert venue, called Che Cafe, on University of California San Diego campus that the city and school shut down almost a year ago. The patrons have had a 24/7 sit in since the eviction notice keeping it open, and continues to do regular concerts.

Oo7v4 TIL that Ethan Zuckerman, the man who invented pop-up ads has apologized to the world for creating one of the Internet's most hated forms of advertising.

x9b5 TIL: In the original Sleeping Beauty the prince rapes her while she is asleep, and she becomes pregnant with twins.

x6x65 TIL that the 26 storey The Holiday Inn opened in 1974 in Beirut would become a battle ground in the civil war that erupted in 1975. It saw over 1,000 deaths, many of those who died were thrown from the top of the hotel.