Post * ODg7 — Curious Curator

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TIL: Composer Sun Ra once performed for catatonics and schizophrenics. One broke a years-long silence to ask him “Do you call that music?”

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nWDmr TIL that Hello became a common greeting as a result of invention of the telephone.

JgYB TIL that Richard Belzer has played the same character, Detective John Munch, in many different TV shows. And since its the same Character, that means that Arrested Development is in the same universe as The X-Files.

YX5G TIL the coldest temperature in the Universe exists on Earth. Magnets of the Large Hadron Collider are cooled to 1.9 Kelvin, colder than deep space.

kJxlE TIL George Romero was slotted to be the original director of the It miniseries.

PYvQV TIL the blob of toothpaste shown in ads is called a ‘nurdle’ and there have been lawsuits between companies over the rights to use this shape.