Post * X0B46 — Curious Curator

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TIL about Rhythms Del Mundo, a mid-2000s environmental awareness project that mixes English pop and rock vocals with the backing of the Cuban ensemble Buena Vista Social Club. Acts include the likes of Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys.

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N6rb TIL Orson Wells was only 23yrs old when he gave his famous ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast, and only 26yrs old when he produced, co-authored, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane.

nMOo TIL that there is no scientific basis for the Kübler-Ross “DABDA” model, aka the 5 stages of grief. The author herself insisted the stages didn’t all happen and not in any order. The model was embraced in pop culture because humans are naturally predisposed to explanations that tell a simple story.

M7BYB TIL Francesco Guicciardini's father refused to make his son a priest, out of principal, even if it meant less money. As a layman Francesco ended up working for 20 years as the Pope's right hand man. He privately wrote that he hated the clergy, but self interest demanded to keep working for them

pY1y8 TIL Mount Washington, N.H. has more deaths per vertical foot than any other mountain in the world.

jppv TIL that British engineers laid a fuel pipeline under the English channel in a single night, under cover of darkness, to supply the Allied forces in Normandy.