Post * OjKg — Curious Curator

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TIL ABC only aired “Clerks: The Animated Show” twice before canceling it. They aired the fourth episode first, and then aired the second episode despite the fact that the second episode is a ‘flashback’ episode, and derives much of its humor from the fact that it flashes back to the first episode.

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Wg9A TIL that Oxford University was founded in 1249, some 75 years before the first appearance of the Aztec civilisation in 1325.

xVl5k TIL in 'The Shawshank Redemption', Red was serving a life sentence for three murders. He killed his wife by cutting the brake cables on her car. The resulting crash also killed a neighbor and their child.

edeD TIL Killer whales go through menopause. In fact Killer whales, humans and short-finned pilot whales are the only known species to lose the ability to have children, but continue living for decades after.

XjDQ TIL that John Lasseter, one of the three founding fathers of Pixar, was fired from Disney for trying to create three dimensional cartoon images. Lucasfilm hired him promptly afterwards for being innovative. Disney later bought both Lucasfilms and Pixar for billions of dollars.

xPBk TIL In America, women are sentenced to less than half the jail time as men for the same crime.