Post * e7pJ — Curious Curator

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TIL that in 1937, MGM covered up the brutal rape of dancer Patricia Douglas and ruined her reputation and her life

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LkAwr TIL: The original 1992 Candyman film used an on set hypnotist to help one of the actors act more realistically scared.

QNrva TIl that Jesus had brothers (and sisters too)

epdQg TIL Nazis Planned to Assassinate Winston Churchill with an Exploding Chocolate Bar but the plot was uncovered by british spies

Lk7ev TIL that a park ranger on Rinca Island was attacked by a Komodo dragon in his own office after a cleaner had left the door open the night before. The dragon was hiding under his desk when he sat down. The smell of blood attracted more outside. The ranger was taken to the hospital and recovered.

X0oyX TIL of Tom Major Ball a circus performer who is listed as an inspiration for David Bowie’s “Major Tom”. Ball had numerous illegitimate children, had an affair with a co-star who later died on stage, sold garden gnomes as a business and in his 60’s, fathered future UK prime minister John Major.