Post * dxM9 — Curious Curator

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TIL after Ken Jeong’s wife was diagnosed with cancer, she told him to pursue his dreams. He put a hold on his doctor career and began his comedian one.

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E1OO0 TIL During the Prohibition era, the U.S. Government allowed Whiskey to be sold through pharmacies. As a result, Walgreens grew from 20 retail stores to almost 400.

0wgYR TIL that the act of scaling defensive walls or ramparts with the aid of ladders, a prominent and dangerous siege warfare tactic in medieval times, is called "Escalade"

XwmP TIL that had Batman & Robin been successful, WB had already planned a fifth film, which would have been titled Batman Triumphant. Directed by Joel Schumacher, it was to feature Scarecrow and Harley Quinn as its villains, with a possible hallucinatory appearance by Jack Nicholson as the Joker.

neaJ9 TIL that in the making of the documentary film “They Shall Not Grow Old”, Peter Jackson’s crew visually restored 100 hours of Imperial War Museum WWI footage for free “just to get their archive in better shape”.

yVd0p TIL that common kestrel bird used to be called the "windfucker".