Post * Y7LvW — Curious Curator

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TIL the supervillain Harley Quinn was originally intended to be a one-episode background character in the 90's Batman Animated Series, and was almost scrapped until her creator hired his college friend Arleen Sorkin to do a voice for her based on a clown character she played

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jNR7R TIL that similar to the fact that the American South may referred to as "The Bible Belt", or the Great Lakes Region is referred to as "The Rust Belt", the Mormon Corridor (in the Midwest of the US)is nicknamed "The Jello Belt" because they consume twice the amount of Jello as the average American.

vPDvL TIL that Knott's Berry Farm Started Out as a Berry Stand and Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant

oBjL7 TIL that one Canadian tank, nicknamed "Bomb," never missed a day of service from when it landed in Normandy on D-Day until the surrender of Germany, firing over 6,000 rounds and taking two enemy hits across France, Belgium, and the Netherlands

Ook1e TIL William Shakespeare purposely had a curse epitaph engraved on his burial tomb to ward off would-be grave robbers, Shakespeare's remains have yet to be disturbed.

X04RD TIL that the famous James Bond theme (first heard in 1962 in Dr. No) was source of a long running dispute between John Barry and Monty Norman. Norman had originally written a song for a musical adaptation of V. S. Naipaul's novel A House for Mr Biswas which was the inspiration.