Post * demE — Curious Curator

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TIL Eminem once took so much Methadone, doctors informed him that he had taken the equivalent of four bags of heroin, and was “about two hours from dying.”

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VJe0 TIL that school teacher Gail Wise was the first ever purchaser of a Ford Mustang, paying $3419 for it in 1964 and becoming “the coolest teacher in school that year”. She still owns the car & it’s done 68000 miles.

4XNJ5 TIL that science has a need for more postmortem brains to study. Being an organ donor does not include the brain, so you must sign up separately in order to donate your brain for research.

JYMp8 TIL Wario is named Wario because it's a portmanteau of the words 'Mario' and the Japanese word 'warui' (悪い), meaning "bad"- not because a W is an upside-down M to signify that he's Mario's evil counterpart.

xV8wk TIL that Windows 95 included the music video for Weezer's hit single "Buddy Holly" to demonstrate the video capabilities of the operating system.

nJAB TIL that life in Puritan New England was so hard that children who were abducted by Native Americans often refused to come back