Post * GAyXG — Curious Curator

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TIL: Christopher Reeve wanted to play the Richard Gere role in Pretty Woman but was turned away. The role went to Richard Gere, who had gotten his role in American Gigilo after Christopher Reeve turned it down.

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yVVvJ TIL when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938, people in the capital Vienna were so violent towards their Jewish population the Nazi government threatened the the local authorities against 'undisciplined' attacks on the city's Jews (Paywalled)

6EPZQ TIL penguins are not heavy enough to set off landmines. Because of this there is a huge nature preserve on the Falkland islands, with 1 million penguins and 5 types of penguins.

nebK9 TIL in 1961, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara wrote a book called “Guerrilla Warfare”, which explained different tactics for waging guerrilla warfare in different countries. Bolivian counter-insurgency forces also studied this book, which eventually led to Guevara’s capture and execution in 1967.

R5pk9 TIL The Spanish observed how Native Americans lived and the food they ate, coming up with a theory that they were once white but their conditions made their skin darker, with less facial hair. This meant the Spanish believed that they could “cure” Natives by changing their lifestyles

R6y1 TIL of the Octobass, an enormous bowed string instrument that plays notes so low you can see the strings vibrating