Post * LQYg0 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1625, after an armed uprising in upper austria, the 36 suspected ringleaders were forced to roll dices in pairs and the loosers were hung. 18 were pardoned including 2 who lost the dice game.

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Qana TIL The Creators of Disney Pixar’s “UP” had the voice of Russell (Jordan Nagai) do various physical exercises such as sprinting around the studio room as fast as he could and then stopping immediately in front of the mic to recite his line, producing a more genuine effect of child-like energy.

b54 TIL that David Bowie’s son was called “Zowie Bowie” until he was 12, when he asked people to call him Joe. He then later had people call him by his birth name, Duncan Jones and went on to direct Moon and Source Code

D1wvg TIL that British politician John Stonehouse faked his death in November 1974, leaving a pile of clothes on a beach in Miami. It was presumed he had gone swimming and drowned. But Stonehouse was actually en route to Australia to set up a new life with his mistress and secretary, Sheila Buckley.

4kr9a TIL Bram Stoker wrote "Dracula" in the 1890s. Although many link the novel to Vlad the Impaler, Stoker’s notes don’t mention him. Instead, he found the name "Dracula" in a library, mistakenly believing it meant "devil" in Romanian.

9YJnp TIL for decades, cartographers have made secret illustrations on Switzerland’s official topographical maps such as a spider, a naked woman, and a marmot, eluding the Swiss Federal Office of Topography for years before removal. The naked woman reclined for nearly 60 yrs in the municipality of Egg.