Post * R50Aj — Curious Curator

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TIL in 1962 researchers from the University of Oklahoma injected 297 mg of LSD, which is nearly three thousand times the human recreational dose, into "Tusko", an Indian elephant at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Within five minutes he collapsed and died one hour and forty minutes later.

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v1OGD TIL when John Williams first played Steven Spielberg the theme song for 'Jaws,' the director laughed and thought it was a joke. He then asked Williams if he could try something a little more swashbuckling, but luckily the composer was able to convince him otherwise.

woyxM TIL That Queen guitarist Brian May helped NASA land the Mars Rover aswell as guide them towards an asteroid

GKDQ TIL that two Canadian schoolboys hacked into an ATM using a manual found online. It took them so long to convince the bank they were serious, they were late back to school. So the bank wrote them a note.

QZv6 TIL that “confession bear” is a sun bear named Ernst that was born in a Berlin zoo and is now living in Jihlava zoo in the Czech Republic under the name Adam

rR5AW TIL that Buddha statues often depict elongated earlobes to show that Siddartha Gautama’s earlobes were once weighed down heavy, valuable earnings. He gave up his wealth but the earlobes stayed elongated