Post * PKML — Curious Curator

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TIL that Beethoven wrote Moonlight sonata to a blind girl who wanted to know what was a moonlight like

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8e76V TIL that there is a religious manuscript from the 14th Century called "The Decretals of Gregory IX" featuring a figure who looks like Yoda in an orange robe. It's most likely part of a creative depiction of the story of Samson, according to the curator of the British Library.

OlW4 TIL Jimi Hendrix and girlfriend Kathy Etchingham called each other by their middle names, Marshall and Mary. After an argument where Jimi complained about her lumpy mashed potatoes Etchingham stormed out into the street and left. When she returned the next day he had written ‘The Wind Cries Mary’

N7yRb TIL: American bankers made hundred of millions by pretending to trade aluminum, thus driving the price up.

WL TIL that Australia, Great Britain and Switzerland are the only countries to send a team to every Olympic Games since their inception in 1896.

rRX6w TIL the cars Oprah gave away during her famous "You get a car!" episode were donated by General Motors as a promotional stunt, and many of the 'winners' had to pay an additional $7,000 gift tax.