Post * JYLZB — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Looney Tunes were originally WB's answer to Disney's "Silly Symphony" and was much more musically-focused. Over time it became more focused on the characters and less about the music but kept the name.

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8eQbX TIL that Foresters Financial, a company that sells life insurance, originally required prospective members to go through a trial by combat

yJxa TIL China Used More Concrete in 3 Years than the US did in the 20th Century

P15wG TIL Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. This ability to multitask with both hands is known as mirror writing.

LkQOV TIL During the repatriation of Cossacks from NJ to the Soviets, Barbiturates were put in their coffee to put them in a coma, for a "speedy return to Stalin's hangmen"

gXdL TIL President John F. Kennedy was a huge James Bond fan. He viewed an early print of ‘From Russia with Love’ at the White House on Nov 21st, 1963. It was the last film he ever saw, he was killed the next day in Dallas.