Post * PXMV — Curious Curator

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TIL that in the 1950’s, CIA members feared being unknowingly dosed by LSD as it had become “something of an occupational hazard.”

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QNvJe TIL that the Bluey episode 1x43 'Camping' is based off of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode 5x2 'Darmok'. In both there are two people, one at least has the name Jean-Luc, that have to survive while learning from each others different language.

kJ9ve TIL Carlos Mavroleon, heir to a shipping tycoon, was pressumed dead after a trip to France. He ended up in Pakistan and returned home 2 years later, now a muslim and fluent in Pashtun. He mingled in high society, left again to fight the soviets in Afghanistan, and later became a war correspondent

kOAxm TIL that the inventor of the cereal Apple Jacks is currently a professor of biological engineering at MIT and invented the cereal as a summer intern

womx8 TIL in the ‘60s, filmmaker Bob Clark, driving en route to a date, heard writer Jean Shepherd's childhood stories on a radio broadcast. After circling a block for an hour till the broadcast ended, Clark was inspired to create a movie based on Shepherd’s tales. The outcome? 1983’s "A Christmas Story."

DQOav TIL about Julie d'Aubigny, a 17th century sword-fighting, bisexual opera singer who lived a colorful & storied life. She once wounded a man in a duel & after nursing him back to health took him as a lover. Another time she set a fire in a convent to fake the death of a nun who she had an affair with