Post * J5bj — Curious Curator

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TIL Cooking show celebrity Alton Brown was the cinematographer for the music video for R.E.M.’s “The One I Love.”

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rxey TIL blackcurrant flavour is almost unknown in America because blackcurrant can spread disease to pine trees so was banned for most of the 20th century

v8j4 TIL You don’t own your music in the itunes library, you rent it. This means that when you die, your children will not be able to inherit the songs you have purchased. The tracks will instead be handed back to Apple.

yVMgJ TIL in 2005 Rick Moranis released a Grammy nominated country album The Agoraphobic Cowboy

WkbXd TIL Barbra Streisand has built a shopping mall in the basement underneath her house, unstaffed and she stocks it with things she buys herself. Need a gift for a friend, she ‘shops’ for it in her own private mall.

oBMjW TIL that NATO made wildly false claims about losses they had inflicted on their adversaries in the Kosovo War, with the real numbers of enemy vehicles destroyed differing from official figures by as much as "3 tanks, not 120; 18 armored personnel carriers, not 220; 20 artillery pieces, not 450"