Post * JAZB — Curious Curator

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TIL that the famous melody of the song “Lowrider” is actually a saxaphone and harmonica playing together.

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j6AnN TIL Walking through a doorway can cause a person to forget their original task or thought, known as the "doorway effect."

LQO7d TIL that a 1963 Television western series, "The Dakotas" (starring Jack Elam and Chad Everett), was cancelled almost overnight after viewers called in complaining about a scene in the most recent episode where a lawman murdered two outlaws in a church

4XWOR TIL that in 1660, Scottish writer Thomas Urquhart died from laughter after hearing that Charles II had came back to the throne.

kOAK4 TIL: In the 1930s, residents of Munich would take a small side street so they didn't need to render the Nazi salute to the shrine of the Nazis who died in the Beer Hall Putsch. This side road came to be called "Drückebergergasse" or "Shirker's alley"

4kV4X TIL that in 2019 a 73 y.o. patient died as a result of receiving a fecal transplant. Massachusetts General Hospital later confirmed that the donor's stool (poop) contained E.coli bacteria. Checks for E.coli had begun earlier in 2019 but were not applied to existing stool donations in frozen storage.