Post * VMdeB — Curious Curator

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TIL about Judge Dread, the first white man who had a reggae hit in Jamaica. Only Bob Marley sold more reggae music in the UK during the 70s. Before he worked as a wrestler "The Masked Executioner", a dept collector and security guy for the Rolling Stones. He died walking off the stage in 1998.

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loJn7 TIL That before Norse settlers came to Iceland the Island was inhabited by Irish Christian Monks living in several scattered monasteries

9bnQ TIL in the 1990s, Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple, submitted so many high scores of the classic Gamboy game Tetris to Nintendo Power magazine that they eventually refused to print them. He then began sending them under the name “Evets Kainzow.”

9JVX TIL BB King names all of his guitars “Lucille” after a woman who was the subject of a fight between two men during one of his shows in 1949. During the fight, a fire was started, in which BB King ran back inside to retrieve his beloved $30 Gibson guitar, nearly killing him in the process.

d8a7B TIL that the reason we feel compelled sing in the shower is partly because the reverb of the shower boosts the voice, adds more bass, and sounds more powerful, thus boosting the singer's confidence to sing.

nowr TIL 15-year-old Jonathan Lebed was making up to $74,000 a day in the stock market by using internet message boards to manipulate prices. The Government eventually went after him, but he was able to keep half a million dollars of his gains.