Post * VBpMD — Curious Curator

› added 1 year ago

33

TIL that Stockard Channing, who played Rizzo in Grease, was actually 33 years old when she portrayed a high school student.

Read more

rBo TIL That the creator of Magic:the gathering, Richard Garfield, proposed to his wife with a custom made Magic card.

9wvLr TIL that Jim Morrison loved reading so much, that he once excused himself from class, telling his teacher he needed to get a "brain tumour" removed, and instead spent the rest of the day reading. When Jim was offered a graduation gift from his parents, he chose the complete works of Nietzsche.

KONV9 TIL: the city of Venice was founded as Italians hid in the marshes and lagoons to hide from the invasion of Attila the Hun

6ER4J TIL about the Double contrabass flute which is one of the lowest pitched metal flutes and the biggest with up to 22 feet of tubing and primarily is only found in flute choirs

M7k50 TIL that Iowa is the only state in the United States whose eastern and western borders are created entirely by rivers