Post * XEgdQ — Curious Curator

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TIL That the McRib can trace its roots back to a menu overhaul that took place over the late 70's/early 80's and the military masterpiece that is reconstituted meat.

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x6mBo TIL that during the filming of "The African Queen" (1951) on location in Uganda, many of the cast and crew became ill. During the filming of a scene where Katharine Hepburn played an organ, the crew kept a bucket off camera so she could vomit into it between takes

neZ5r TIL Amtrak trains running at 2am on the Sunday in November when daylight savings 'falls back" must come to a full stop for one hour. This allows clocks to catch up to the train schedule.

4Rw6 TIL that certain frequencies of infrasound ~20 Hz can cause disruptions in human perception because they resonate the eyeball and cause hyperventilation. People have reported being haunted by “gray masses” that were later explained by the presence of low-frequency machinery.

b96y9 TIL The Trip (1967 movie) by Roger Corman is a movie about LSD, the director took doses to make it. Jack Nicholson who wrote the screenplay was taking it at this time along with two actors in the movie were famous for tripping: Dennis Hooper and Peter Fonda.

Oo8pa TIL Xerxes built two pontoon bridges over the Dardanelles strait to move his troops into Macedonia. When a storm destroyed the bridges, Xerxes had the builders beheaded and sent his army to whip, yell at, and brand the waters. The bridges were never rebuilt. Xerxes later lost the war with Macedonia.