Post * bD44 — Curious Curator

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TIL Robert Englund (aka Freddy Krueger) tried and failed to land the role of Luke Skywalker … so he told his friend Mark Hamill to take a shot at it

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DQerr TIL our hands and feet wrinkle in water to provide better grip on wet objects

LAPv TIL that during the 1977 New York blackout, a number of looters stole DJ equipment from electronics stores and as a result, the hip hop genre, barely known outside of the Bronx at the time, grew at an astounding rate from 1977 onward.

EgV5V TIL Poon Lim survived 133 days afloat in the Pacific Ocean aboard an 8' square wooden raft. When rescued and told that no one had ever survived longer on a raft at sea, he simply answered, "I hope no one will ever have to break that record."

R5lZ9 TIL The root cause of transient motion-related illnesses (e.g., seasickness, carsickness), especially why some people seem to be inherently immune, is not fully understood.

xVKm1 TIL that in four states, including California, you can take the bar exam and practice law without ever going to law school. It’s called “reading law”.