Post * O0pe — Curious Curator

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TIL: Steve Wozniak was the first owner of the phone number 888-888-8888. But it proved unusable, receiving over 100 wrong numbers a day – mostly from babies playing with the phone.

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oR91Y TIL about Jim Humble, a self-proclaimed bishop that gives industrial bleach to sick people and autistic children

Me5pb TIL that in 1838, Poe wrote a novel in which 4 stranded sailors survive for a while off a turtle, but finally kill one of their own, Richard Parker, and eat him. 46 years later, 4 stranded sailors, after surviving for many days off a turtle, eventually kill and eat one of their own, Richard Parker.

jNRgp TIL After J.D Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, served in World War Two, he was hospitalized with combat stress reaction for a few weeks. He later told his daughter "You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live."

a8Wa0 TIL Michael Buffer makes between $25,000 and $100,000 every time he says,”let’s get ready to rumble”

JY4PB TIL that John Wayne provided the voice of Imperial spy Garindan in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope via stock audio, making this his last role in a film before his death.