Post * a8Xn0 — Curious Curator

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TIL among the longest pieces of fiction ever written is-among other things-a fanfic of The Loud House, with over thirty million words upon completion.

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a8rxM TIL that actor Mark Lindsay Chapman, lost the part of John Lennon in a 1985 biopic because Yoko Ono thought him having the same name as Lennon's killer was "bad karma". Linsday would eventually play Lennon in the 2007 movie Chapter 27... a movie that mostly focused on his killer, Mark David Chapman

4X9Yo TIL How streets, roads, and avenues are different and what the names mean. Road runs between two distant points — two towns, for example. Street applies to urban roadways.

KYWmG TIL that after a drunken fracas on a flight to Sydney in 1968, The Who were forced to leave Australia and subsequently received a telegram from the then Prime Minister to never return. They would not return until 2004.

XEKvP TIL a psychic sued her hospital for neutralising her psychic powers with a CAT scan. A jury agreed and she won $988,000.

GYNAJ TIL President Kennedy kept two hamsters--Debbie and Billie--in the White House as pets. The two escaped often, one time being found under Kennedy's bed. Debbie later ate Billie and died of indigestion.