Post * JYeDl — Curious Curator

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TIL the 1984 movie Gremlins first wanted to use monkeys but they proved unreliable. Even the puppets became so infuriating the crew created a list entitled, "Horrible Things to do to Gizmo". Consequently, to satisfy the crew, a scene was included where the gremlins hang Gizmo and throw darts at him.

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nex0B TIL a man endured 440 days drifting across the Pacific Ocean until he was found in the Marshall Islands in 2013, emaciated and wearing only his underpants, having swum ashore.

4EMR TIL after a girl in his community was killed by a red-light runner, this 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. With his neighborhood cheering him on, he smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop, no charges were filed against him

p84xN TIL that in Ancient Egypt, the pharaoh alongside the general public would gather around to masturbate into the Nile river as a ritual ceremony to promote river fertility.

eWn6 TIL the spikes on the end of a Stegosaurus’s tail are called the “Thagomizer” after a Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson.

6EVB8 TIL that In Elizabethan England, the word 'Nothing' was slang for female genitalia. The title of the Shakespeare play 'Much Ado About Nothing' is a double entendre.