Post * GYnaj — Curious Curator

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TIL that an eyewitness to President Lincoln's assassination appeared on television in 1956 on a game show.

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ep6WE TIL Caravaggio, pioneer of baroque art, had an extensive criminal record, most of it related to brawls and physical assault. He went on the run after being sentenced to beheading for murder, at which point his paintings repeatedly feautured severed heads, often his own

78ABZ TIL in 1993 a fan at a Chicago Bulls game won a shot to make a basket from half court for $1million and made it. The insurance company disqualified him because he played bball in college but the team paid him themselves and years later he met Michael Jordan who told him "we made them give it to you"

x66ew TIL Ernest Hemingway's paranoia has been ascribed to everything from alcoholism to bi-polar disorder to CTE, but he was indeed being followed by the FBI due to his extensive ties in Cuba

gRGX TIL that school administrators let 16-year old Bill Gates write the computer code to schedule their students in classes. He modified the code so he was placed with “a disproportionate number of interesting girls”.

awKvo TIL that the world's oldest company - Kongo Gumi - was founded around 1440 years ago.