Post * WkyW4 — Curious Curator

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TIL: Ozzy Osbourne from Black Sabbath once fell asleep during a driving test, waking up to a note saying 'you have failed'. He passed in 2009, age 60, on his 19th attempt.

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R7ok8 TIL of Juan Luna, a painter who killed his wife and her mother in Paris in 1892, because he suspected his wife of having had an affair. He was arrested but acquitted on the basis of temporary insanity. At the time in France there was an “unwritten law” that forgave men for killing unfaithful wives.

69bxY TIL at the premiere for "Saving Private Ryan," while Mike Myers was still tearing up after the movie because his parents fought in World War II, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg pitched him "Shrek" and Myers thought “Well, that’s the worst fucking title I’ve ever heard in my life.”

oRmNo TIL that the phrase “Immaculate Conception” refers not to the belief that Mary became pregnant as a virgin, but to the belief that she was conceived without the “original sin” described in the book of Genesis that everyone else is born with.

rNQwM TIL Metallica planned to call their first album Metal Up Your Ass, with the album cover being a hand coming through a toilet bowl holding a machete dripping with blood. The distributors heavily objected to the name and their record label didn't allow them to use it.

O7oe TIL that there was a breed of dog called a “Turnspit Dog”. It was placed into a large wheel like a hamster or gerbil wheel. The wheel drove a belt connected to a turn-spit in a fireplace to rotate the meat on the turn spit. This breed is now extinct.