Post * W7BEo — Curious Curator

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TIL that the length of all capillaries in the human body isn't 100,000 kilometers but rather somewhere between 9,000 - 19,000

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bD99 TIL OJ Simpson was nearly cast as the Terminator, but the studio was afraid that no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.

YxYB TIL Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written during a six-day cocaine high during which he generated sixty thousand words.

KO4mJ TIL model Jennifer O'Neill was cast to star in the Disneys The Black Hole but was told she needed to cut her hair as it would be easier for scenes set in zero-g. She gave in, drinking wine during the haircut and leaving noticeably impaired. She lost the part after a serious car crash on the way home

6Ek8W TIL orca cultural traditions are so powerful that one population is in decline because it is reluctant to eat other foods and mate with other cultures.

OG4La TIL that in ancient Rome, they used a punishment called "Poena cullei" for patricide. The condemned person was sewn into a sack with live animals such as dogs, snakes, monkeys, and chickens, then thrown into water.