Post * MexJb — Curious Curator

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TIL A guy faked his own death in order to get out of a Verizon Wireless contract

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n1m7 TIL In 1931 when President Ronald Reagan played on the football team for Eureka College, took in two rival team black players in his personal home, who were denied admission into a hotel when they were going to play against Eureka. He remained friends with one of the men until they died in 1981

e0olL TIL Lenny Lipton, The man who wrote the children's song "Puff the Magic Dragon" also invented the modern method of projecting 3-D movies

wLPD8 TIL that Pope John Paul II nominated Saint Isidore of Seville, a Bishop and Scholar, as the patron saint of the internet because he tried to record everything that was known in his 20 book opus Etymologies/Origins.

EJrP TIL that “Danger Zone” was originally going to be sung by the band ‘Toto’, but arguments with the band’s lawyers prevented this. Bryan Adams and REO Speedwagon were also approached but declined, leading To Kenny Loggins involvement.

mxMlY TIL Marie Curie's annex lab in Arcueil is sometimes called Chernobyl on the Seine. The lab closed in 1978 but radium has a half-life of 1,600 years, and there are traces of a uranium isotope at the Curie annex with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. The cleanup has so far cost about €10 million.