Post * Y7KBZ — Curious Curator

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TIL newsboys across New York went on strike against Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper in 1899

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W7LGA TIL Mel Gibson originally intended for The Passion of the Christ to have no subtitles, despite the film being entirely in Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic.

4XRyR TIL U.S. President James Buchanan regularly bought slaves with his own money in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania

nWewr TIL that acclaimed children’s book author Shel Silverstein wrote “A Boy Named Sue,” made popular by Johnny Cash when he sang live for the San Quentin State Prison in 1969.

6A4m TIL that Married…With Children was developed as a reactive contrast to The Cosby Show. Where the Cosbys were shown as the first affluent, loving, black family on tv, the Bundys were the first who were all white, poor and hated each other. The original working title was Not The Cosbys

X0GvX TIL: The bodies of two women were discovered over a year after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, but they were both actually victims of murder prior to the eruption whose bodies were hidden to the debris and ash.