Post * QQDX — Curious Curator

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TIL that Bill Cosby bought the rights to Leonard Part 6, a movie he wrote, directed, and starred in, because it was so bad he wanted to make sure it never aired on TV.

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lxpG TIL that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s dvd was designed to look like a bootleg since the main character is a hacker. Netflix was flooded with complaints from people that thought they’d been sent pirated copies.

LR0r TIL Steve Jobs’s pancreatic cancer was curable, and that his decision to use homeopathy while resisting surgery brought him to an early grave. According to the chief of Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center’s integrative medicine department, he “…essentially committed suicide.”

8aGeX TIL that Yale graduate William Chester Minor, who became one of the largest contributors for the compiling of the Oxford English Dictionary by providing usages of words from his antiquated book collection, was a clinically insane murderer who cut off his own penis.

rRY50 TIL that the British RAF filled their reserve fuel tanks with beer in order to quench the thirst of troops at the front lines in WWII. They were called "beer bombs" and the high altitude kept the beer cold en route.

LQxAP TIL the bodyguard assigned to protect Abraham Lincoln left at intermission, got drunk at a saloon and fell asleep. He was fired three years later for falling asleep again on duty.