Post * R077 — Curious Curator

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TIL it’s common in Osaka, Japan to react to fake gun and sword motions

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1aVGr TIL that Bill Murray signed up for the Garfield movie because he thought Joel Coen, of the Coen Brothers, was the writer; however, the writer was Joel Cohen, the man who wrote Toy Story and Cheaper by the Dozen. He still did the movie. And the sequel.

R79pa TIL The American boardgame "Chutes and Ladders" is a bastardization of an ancient Indian game called Moksha Patam. The game's original theming represented the Hindu soul's arduous path to liberation from the cycle of reincarnation and has been played by the same ruleset for nearly 2,000 years.

jBLM TIL Pepperoni is an American food. In Italy, “peperoni” refers to bell peppers, and there is no Italian salami by that name.

7bBZ TIL that chewing gum is an effective booster of mental performance, & often a better test aid than caffeine

lW8r TIL Students who dated in Middle School are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their single classmates.