Post * XEQk — Curious Curator

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TIL Sylvester Stallone , at 15, was voted as “most likely to end up in the electric chair” by classmates.

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EKld TIL Raphael Ravenscroft the musician who played the saxophone melody on Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street, was only paid £27 for his work and was ‘gutted’ when he first heard the playback because his saxophone was out of tune.

496J TIL John Belushi forgot to bring any form of ID to his own wedding. He called a judge, asked him if he watched SNL, and got him to sign an affadavit for the wedding license.

aw5XN TIL after his father and brother were killed by Confederate Home Guard, Henry Berry Lowrie led a band of American Indian, White, and African-American men in a guerrilla war against the Confederacy and later the upper class. He obtained a Robbin Hood like status and vanished without a trace in 1872.

J1NE4 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to play Kyle Reese in the 1984 film The Terminator

jXaN TIL that the billions of galaxies we can see may only represent about 3% of total number out there