Post * Yp84A — Curious Curator

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TIL Marilyn Manson's 2015 album was printed on the same discs used for PlayStation 1 videogames. The famous black discs were used for their high contrast against a white thermal paint that would appear when heated by a disc reader, changing the image on the disc when played.

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Y8gP TIL Pope Benedict defrocked nearly 400 priests for abusing children

jBKX TIL President James Garfield entertained his friends by having them ask him questions, and then writing the answer in Latin with one hand while simultaneously answering in Greek with the other.

R5rO1 TIL Woody Guthrie composed "This Land is Your Land" and then forgot about it, not doing anything with it for 5 years

ANYd TIL that not a single engineer made it off the Titanic: they stayed and kept the power on so others could escape.

aPAb TIL that while filming Hans Gruber’s death scene in Die Hard, Alan Rickman was dropped a full second before he expected to fall, resulting in the look of shock present in the film.