Post * YBnA — Curious Curator

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TIL pubic lice are on their way to becoming an endangered species…

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R7jO4 TIL that Mark Fisher, who designed the stage for Pink Floyd’s original THE WALL concert also went on to design stages for U2, Lady Gaga, Elton John, Madonna, and Metallica.

yQm4X TIL that Shirley Temple, following the end of her acting career, made an unsuccessful run for congress and later became United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia

9YGKX TIL Sesame Street briefly featured a muppet named Don Music, a composer who frequently banged his head against his piano. After numerous complaints from parents that children were copying his behaviour, the character was retired

yXRp TIL that tapes revealed that Enron shut down a power station in California and created an artificial power shortage, deliberately aggravating the 2001 California Energy Crisis, so they could raise prices and cost residents billions in surcharges.

167Y7 TIL that from 1643 to 1774-over 130 years-France had only 2 kings: Louie XIV and XV, the first and 20th longest reigning monarchs back to back.