Post * YpRwP — Curious Curator

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TIL Prince backed out of singing w/Michael Jackson on Bad, b/c of the line "your butt is mine" Prince said Now, who is going to sing that to whom? Cause [he] sure ain’t singing that to me, and I sure ain’t singing it to [him].”

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9Yk0p TIL that in 2006, a Sudanese man was caught committing beastiality with a neighbor’s goat. The goat’s owner insisted that since the criminal had treated the goat as his wife, he should have to marry it. Thus, the man was forced to pay a dowry of $75 USD and “married” the goat.

g1ZL TIL it wasn’t until after Kennedy was assassinated that it was codified the Vice President would become President upon the death of the President. Beforehand it was just by long standing precedent.

8ewlX TIL - Haim Saban & Shuki Levy, famous for composing many TV show themes (Inspector Gadget, Mysterious Cities of Gold, M.A.S.K., He-Man, She-Ra), were actually ghostwritten by other composers to gain control of all publishing rights and music royalty revenue. The suit was settled out of court.

167n7 TIL that the act of hiccuping may originate from an amphibious evolutionary ancestor that breathed underwater

4X1LR TIL about hypnagogic hallucinations: Visual, tactile, auditory, or other sensory events that occur at the transition from wakefulness to sleep