Post * M7AgW — Curious Curator

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TIL most of the characters in the play Godspell do not have set names -- apart from Jesus and the dual role of John the Baptist/Judas, each character is generally named after the person portraying them.

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awDKM TIL that helicopters are used in cherry farming to dry cherries after it rains so they don’t soak in too much water and explode

GY47j TIL Till Lindemann, lead singer of Rammstein, wanted a light put in his mouth for visual effects. His bandmate suggested he use a flesh colored wire and run it into his mouth from the outside. Lindemann refused, opting to have a surgical incision in his left cheek to directly feed it into his mouth

8mPV TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story about 4 crewman who are lost at sea and turned to eating the cabin boy named Richard Parker, 46 years later, an English Yacht sank and the remaining 4 survivors in a life boat turned to eating the Cabin Boy after he fell ill, also named Richard Parker

VMpbG TIL about the thought experiment called the Ship of Theseus. During the maintenance of a ship, all the parts are eventually replaced, is that still the original object? If the discarded pieces are reassembled, is that now the original ship?

VD9p TIL Until 1735 no new metals had been discovered since prehistoric times; iron, copper, silver, gold, zinc, mercury, tin, lead & bismuth. When Georg Brandt recognised a tenth, Cobalt, he became the first ever known person to discover a metal. For thousands of years cobalt was mistaken for bismuth.