Post * XEgNr — Curious Curator

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Today I Learned that Freddie Mercury created songs 'till the day of his death though he knew that he will die. This is a song that he sang even not a week before his death.

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BrE9x TIL author Michael Crichton felt one of his college writing professors was unfairly grading his essays C+. In what he described as a scientific experiment, Crichton submitted an essay by George Orwell under his own name and the professor gave him a B-.

yVKdX TIL in the movie "Elf" the Gimbel's manager wears a "Wanda" name tag because Wanda Sykes was originally cast in the role

d8jLZ TIL that The Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic was originally going to be named Fred and Ginger since the building resembles a pair of dancers but the idea was discarded as the architect was "afraid to import American Hollywood kitsch to Prague".

wLDbW TIL There's a decades-long experimental archeology project in France to build a 13th century castle with period tools.

XEyGr TIL The James Webb telescope, the sucessor to the Hubble, was due to launch in 2007 with a $500mil budget. It is now due to launch October 2021 with a cost of $10+billion.