Post * OG4RY — Curious Curator

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TIL 4-yr-old Cecelia Cichan was the sole survivor of the deadliest aviation accident to have only one survive (NW Airlines Flight 2550). Her mom, dad, brother, & 153 others total died. She was found still belted in her seat, faced down with 3rd-degree burns & fractures to her skull, collarbone & leg

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QZxM TIL: That there is an alternate timeline comics series in which Bruce Wayne is killed prompting his now insane mother to become a female Joker and his father to become a much darker and more violent Batman.

1aomr TIL of Le Pétomane, a French farteur, who could suck water up from a pan into his rectum and project it up to several yards along with playing "La Marseillaise" on an ocarina through a rubber tube in his anus.

mxRRR TIL two things about Good Will Hunting: Mel Gibson almost directed it, and the ending was suggested by Terrence Malick (facts #6 and #13 in the link)

wLNRY TIL Woody Harrelson's father was a hitman who served a life sentence for killing a federal judge.

GYNp5 TIL that "sinister" means "left" or "left-handed" in Latin from the word "sinus" meaning "pocket". In Roman togas, the pocket would be on the left side. This grew to left-handed people having unlucky or even evil connotations, which led to the modern English word "sinister".