Post * R5aJ4 — Curious Curator

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TIL Eddie Bauer, founder of the eponymous outdoor apparel and gear company, loved Labrador retrievers. One of his dogs, named "Wanapum Dart's Dandy", became the first American Labrador retriever to be a Triple Crown national champion, and was inducted into the Retriever Hall of Fame in 1992.

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XEWpD TIL in 2013, Neil Gaiman performed a reading of “A Christmas Carol” using Charles Dickinson’s personal copy that he used specifically for live readings, complete with notes and directions, in full victorian costume. The performance was recorded (audio only) and subsequently released online. Enjoy!

4WwX TIL Gawker once published a video of a drunk college girl having sex in a bathroom stall at a sports bar. The woman begged them to remove it. The editor responded, “Best advice I can give you right now: do not make a big deal out of this”

P1n0Z TIL that Vincent van Gogh was so in love with his widowed cousin that he held his hand in the flame of a lamp in front of his uncle while saying to him: "Let me see her for as long as I can keep my hand in the flame."

P1MML TIL that a Florida man conducted a hoax for ten years, starting in 1948, that a 4.5m-high penguin was visiting Clearwater Beach. A biologist suggested that the tracks were genuine on account of how they matched animal behaviour. The hoax was revealed in 1988.

b6pAj TIL: Jimmy Carter created the "Mental Health Systems Act of 1980" to establish Mental Health facilities in communities across America. It was promptly repealed in 1981 by incoming president Reagan.