Post * QkjX — Curious Curator

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TIL Rick Moranis, beloved comedian who retired to raise his family in the late 80’s, is a semi-active musician

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QJ6ad TIL in 1933, in a publicity stunt for a Mae West movie named "It ain't no Sin", a Hollywood Press Agent bought 50 parrots and had taught them to squawk "It ain't no sin!" Then the movie changed titles and the parrots were subsequently released in South America, still repeating "it ain't no sin".

9w8nD TIL about Villa Las Estrellas, a Chilean town in Antarctica which requires all residents to have their appendix removed

OG8jR TIL That North American Aviation took the P-51 from concept to working prototype in only 102 days.

eVNb TIL ‘McRib’ contains over 70 ingredients including a bleaching agent often used in foamed plastics. McRib’s “restructured meat technology” uses proteins extracted from a mixture of tripe, heart, and scalded stomach to bind pork trimmings into a rib-like food item.

Lk9nr TIL there is a Korean folktale about the common cold's origin. It is about a male ghost with two genitals who releases himself into people's nostrils after he can't find a bride.