Post * WrOB — Curious Curator

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TIL that Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia’s autopsy found a bottle cap, a pipe screen, a mascara brush, and a key, in his intestine.

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XnBR TIL the famous Blue Marble photograph was originally oriented with the south pole at the top but was reoriented to fit the more traditional view of north-up.

16Z67 TIL of the Polynesian legend of Mahuika – goddess of fire and the grandmother of Māui. She married Auahi-roa (a comet) and their children were the fingernails of fire on Mahuika's hand. Years later, Māui retrieved the fingernails and planted them in the trees used for making fire.

yQwaw TIL during the Middle Ages wealthy families sometimes took in men and women who had mental illnesses or physical deformities and kept them as court jesters and pets for their amusement. Known as "innocent fools" they were not paid; just provided with food, clothes, and a place to sleep on the floor.

eppbk TIL that English helicopter magnate Alan Bristow once called double amputee war-hero Douglas Bader a 'tin-legged git' and threw him into a swimming pool. He also invented a waterbed for cows.

R5rRj TIL that after Colonel Sanders sold KFC, he still made surprise visits to KFC restaurants. If the food disappointed him, he’d denounce it as "God-damned slop" or knock it on the floor. In 1973, KFC’s owner sued him for libel after he publicly called their gravy "sludge" with a "wall-paper taste.”