Post * Xx4D — Curious Curator

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TIL the last film ever rented by an official branch of the Blockbuster chain of video stores was “This is the End.”

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6J6Z TIL,Cameraman, Frankie Biando, has been filming Sesame Street since the first season and still operates Camera 1 on today’s set.

nanB TIL that in 1944, in effort to raise money for the war, The Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees and New York Giants all played a Three way game against each other. The final score was Dodgers - 5, Yankees - 1 and Giants - 0. It also ended up raising $56.5 million dollars in war bonds.

yQJ5V TIL that New Jersey's law on reckless endangerment explicitly bans manufacturing or selling "a golf ball containing acid or corrosive fluid substance."

8a4EZ TIL that a dog’s age is not 7 times human age, but: 16(ln(dog’s age))+31. It’s a natural logarithmic curve, so a 1-year old dog is about 31 in human years, and a 10-year old is about 68. (Link has calculator!)

6EnvY TIL the identity of the man who provided critical details to WaPo, leading to the 1972 Watergate scandal, was kept secret until 2005. He went by the pseudonym Deep Throat.