Post * YpXbW — Curious Curator

› added 8 years ago

376

TIL the green falling code in The Matrix is just loads of sushi recipes

Read more

16gGV TIL that there is poem nearly two thousand years old accusing someone of insurance fraud: Epigram III.52 by Roman satirist Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis).

MgYV TIL that an elderly Eskimo in the 1950s, in order to escape government settlement made a knife out of his own feces and frozen spit, killed a dog with it and used its ribs and organs to make a sled, tied it to other dogs and rode off.

5Y6PR TIL that Prince originally wrote "Purple Rain" as a country song and intended it to be a collaboration with Stevie Nicks, but she felt too overwhelmed to do it.

VMPyB TIL: on tour in 1974 Frank Sinatra referred to Australian female journalists as buck & a half hookers, the resulting public outrage saw the unions black ban him. The tour resumed after future Prime Minister Bob Hawke brokered a deal over a bottle of brandy & Sinatra issued a "statement of regret"

grPpX TIL that there was a Banquet of Chestnuts - Where the then Pope had a “banquet” with 50 “Courtesans”, then took the candles and put them on the ground and threw chestnuts on the ground and awarded prizes for best performance in picking up the chestnuts in creative ways.