Post * Z4ED — Curious Curator

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TIL Keith Richards would help set up the elaborate speaker systems on stage for the Rolling Stones concerts, so they would have a secret place to sniff pharmeceutical cocaine during their performance.

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YK1P TIL that young children biologically have a higher tolerance for sugar and there’s virtually no limit on how much sugar they can handle

ya0J TIL that Shakespeare’s works take on a different meaning when performed with an era-appropriate accent instead of a modern one, often introducing rhymes or puns that don’t work in modern pronunciations.

Oo0B4 TIL Chris Hansen of "To Catch A Predator" was caught cheating on his wife with hidden cameras.

rpZW TIL a member of the Wu Tang Clan, Ol Dirty Bastard witnessed a car accident. He and a friend ran to the scene and helped lift a Ford Mustang—rescuing a 4 year old girl from the wreckage. Using a false name, he visited the girl in the hospital frequently until he was spotted by members of the media.

RKJ7 TIL The names for domestic food animals while they’re alive, come from the lower class Anglo-Saxons who tended them, and the word for their meat come from the upper class Norman French who could afford to eat them.