Post * XXW6 — Curious Curator

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TIL there is an orchestra which uses instruments made entirely from vegetables, after the show they use the vegetables to make soup

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Wk08Y TIL that Alan Silvestri, composer for the soundtrack to 'Back to the Future' and 'The Avengers', learned to score a film from a book on film scoring. He bought it the night before a meeting with the producer of 'The Doberman Gang'

bLB9 TIL Yellow speed limit signs in the U.S. are recommended speeds but are not enforced.

QNNYd TIL a plant hopper (Issus coleoptratus) is the first species found to have functional biological gears

7rypP TIL of the 2016 case of State of Georgia vs Denver Fenton Allen where a routine pre-trial hearing turned into a wild and graphic shouting match between the Judge and the defendant. The creators of Rick and Morty animated the incident using the transcript verbatim.

wL9Lo TIL Henry Jay Lewis was an American double-bassist and orchestral conductor. A child prodigy, he joined the L.A. Philharmonic at age 16, becoming the first African-American instrumentalist in a major symphony orchestra and later, the first African-American symphony orchestra conductor in the U.S.