Post * bWjZ — Curious Curator

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TIL George Clooney raised a pet pig for 18 years until it passed of old age, It was sometimes featured in interviews with Clooney, who called him “Max, the star.”

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XEZLj TIL: Beethoven was not a prodigy as Mozart was and had shown no special abilities or intelligence in his childhood. Even later in his twenties, when he moved to Vienna he had a late start, no report from his early days mentioning him as unique talent or a possible successor of Mozart, Haydn.

QJgEp TIL the Queen Termite has the longest life span of any insect in the world, living up to 50 years old

wvY7 TIL There are secret poems written on Boston’s sidewalks that are only visible when it rains.

VMAeG TiL that on July 8th, 1941 the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney along with the rest of her squadron attempted to shoot down the planet Venus thinking it was a high altitude bomber. Venus managed to survive the engagement.

9W87 TIL that in 1994 Penn and Teller created a videogame called “Desert Bus” where you do nothing but drive from Tucson, AZ to Las Vegas, NV in real time at 45mph with zero obstacles. It’s said to be one of the worst video games of all time.