Post * PP9w — Curious Curator

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TIL In his spare time, Steve Carell runs a General Store in Massachusetts.

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p8LZ8 TIL screenwriter Carl Foreman (High Noon) was blacklisted for communist activity. In the face of intense industry all Foreman's colleagues abandoned him expect for Gary Cooper. In gratitude, Foreman gave Cooper first refusal on his future scripts including, The Bridge on the River Kwai.

kOKlE TIL about Taxi Dance Halls of the late 1920s and early '30s where lonely men looking for human contact paid 10 cents a song to dance with women for a few minutes. In 1931, there were at least 100 taxi dance halls in New York, visited by up to 50,000 men each week.

Br5Jy TIL what happened to those tiny coffee spoons they used to have at McDonald’s in the 70’s. McDonald’s got rid of them because people were using them to sniff cocaine.

wYJ8 TIL That as a peasant of the feudal age you had no right to mill you own grain. Millwrights would come to your house and break your milling equipment to enforce their monopoly. This is the reason many quern-stones are found in broken condition.

4Xwgg TIL that during the fall of Saigon in April of 1975, the American radio station played "White Christmas" to signal American troops to immediately move to evacuation points