Post * Y7Wv7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the 2007 movie "The Golden Compass" was originally longer and more faithful to the book, but was brutally recut by the studio in post production - which resulted in the true ending completely removed and the order of the plot rearranged

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PPyV TIL on April Fools Day 2002 NASA posted a picture that proved the moon was made of cheese - including expiration date.

R7JB9 TIL Mad Magazine received a notice of legal action in 1980 from Lucasfilm over its parody of The Empire Strikes Back. Mad sent back a letter they had on file from George Lucas saying how much he loved the parody and the lawyers were never heard from again.

x54B TIL a german company attempted to create spray-on condoms for men with unusually sized or oddly shaped penises, but stopped production when men got intimidated by the machine

mxkvO TIL Thomas Jefferson described the miracles in the Bible, including Jesus coming back from the dead, as "contrary to reason". When it came to the Bible, he was only interested in the moral teachings of Jesus and nothing else.

VEMm TIL that a rat and a human were hooked up to a virtual reality simulator to interact with each other. The subjects were 12 miles apart and the human did not know the rat was a rat.