Post * R7Dy6 — Curious Curator

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TIL there's an R-rated director's cut of Galaxy Quest with raunchy language and sex scenes.

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epg16 TIL Marlon Brando was only 47 when The Godfather was released in 1972.

rAA4 TIL there was an astronomically unlucky astronomer: His first expedition to India to study the Transit of Venus was thwarted by clouds and war; his second 8 years later by the only cloudy day in months. Upon returning he found that he was legally dead, his wife remarried, and his estate was pilfered

ADeZo TIL historians have partnered with a retirement home to find those still able to read the civil-war era cursive script of the Seward family.

8eQx4 TIL the worst snowstorm in the history of Los Angeles occurred in 1949 when up to two feet of snow covered the city for three days as it reached its lowest temperature ever recorded, 28 degrees Fahrenheit

6ERk7 TIL Winston Churchill was half American. His mother, Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn, New York, later Lady Randolph Churchill, was a noted beauty of her day