Post * WkDNN — Curious Curator

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TIL About a bunch of stuff because National Geographic has a huge library of short "101" videos

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nWjk9 TIL that in 1943, Rosa Parks boarded a bus being driven by James F. Blake when the latter told Parks to disembark and re-enter from the back. When Parks got off the bus, Blake sped off. 12 years later, Parks would famously defy Blake, thereby prompting the Montgomery bus boycott.

R5WWQ Today I learned that Shel Silverstein once made an adult cartoon version of his popular story The Giving Tree. Entitled "I Accept the Challenge", it was about a naked woman who cuts off a naked man's arms and legs, and then sits on his torso.

j6Kea TIL the director for the music video for the K-Pop song "Sonata of Temptation" by Ivy was sued by Square Enix on accounts of plagiarism for recreating scenes from the 2005 film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children without legal permission.

pNlN TIL that the Nigerian Prince scam is actually older than the internet (200 years old).

5YlgQ TIL of the "Blood Quran" a Quran that was written in the blood of Saddam Hussein. The book is a problem for Islamic scholars because they can't agree over what should be done with it. It's a sin to write the Quran in blood but it's also a sin to destroy copies of the Quran. They're stumped.