Post * R7dZl — Curious Curator

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TIL The original Batman, the 1960's television series starting Adam West, had the worst score from test audiences in television history.

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WkY14 TIL that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have made nearly 200 million dollars from Book of Mormon, approximately 19 million per month, which was enough money to start their own production company.

DYde TIL that a librarian found smallpox scabs stored inside a 19th century medical book. In the 1800s scabs from infected people would be inserted into healthy people as a means of vaccination. These scabs have the potential to shed light on The evolution of the small pox vaccine used in the Us today.

Mowa TIL: The Murphy bed is named after William L Murphy who needed a way to hide his bed in order to have a girl over to his one bedroom apartment b/c of the moral codes of the times.

D19WD TIL The James Bond film Goldeneye has a tank chase scene filmed in St.Petersburg, Russia. Using the utmost care, the crew staged stunts and explosions in the historic heart of the city. Crew members spent a week emptying around 90,000 cans of Perrier for the stunt sequence

LOdQ TIL there are are areas of the world being referred to as “blue zones” where people, perhaps as a result of diet and social structures, can be up to 4 times as likely to reach 90 years old as people in the U.S.