Post * MJj7 — Curious Curator

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TIL Dominos Pizza stopped using its “Avoid The Noid” mascot because a 22 yr old paranoid schizophrenic named Kenneth Noid–thinking he was the real Noid–took 2 employees hostage with a .357 magnum revolver.

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Oo1jR TIL what the West knows of Aristotle comes largely from Latin translations by Roman Catholic monks of Spanish Jewish recitations of Arabic Muslim texts translated from Syriac using surviving fragments of Koine Greek documents that quoted him second-hand from Attic Greek sources.

QNQBL TIL that when Jim Morrison returned after his absence during the original recording session of the 11-min song “When The Music’s Over,” his bandmates refused to re-record the song. After being persuaded to layer his vocals on the original version, Morrison recorded his vocals in one single take.

Wkx4d TIL the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, written 1000 years before Pythogoras, shows how to find the volume of cylindrical and rectangular granaries as well as how to find the area of a circle

ngj9 TIL that during World War II a Dutch minesweeper evaded the Japanese for eight days disguised as an island. The crew covered the decks in cut trees and painted exposed surfaces to look like rocks. They moved only at night and anchored closed to shore by day, eventually escaping to Australia.

9rGM TIL classical and heavy metal music attract listeners with similar personalities but dissimilar ages. Younger people of the personality type like metal, older counterparts like classical. Both share their motivation: to hear something dramatic and theatrical, a “love of the grandiose.“