Post * eD8k — Curious Curator

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TIL that ‘Mitch’, a character from the 2012 movie ParaNorman, was the first openly gay character to appear in a mainstream children’s animated film.

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9mkX TIL a woman placed a severed finger, belonging to an associate of her husband, into her Wendy’s chili in order to sue the company. She was convicted and sentenced to 9 years in prison

b6ZPp TIL before Post Malone's music became popular he lived in a house with SkyDoesMinecraft

x6aOB TIL that in the 30s, radio station WLW operated at 500kW, broadcasting to most of the US from a single antenna. Nearby residents noticed: some of their lights never turned off and farmers could hear the station through barbed wire fences

pNyp TIL that since becoming a nation 238 years ago, the US has been in conflict or at war approximately 90% of the time.

KOlw4 TIL when Robin Wright showed up at Rob Reiner's house to meet William Goldman, the door opened and "[Wright] was standing there in this little white summer dress, with her long blonde hair, and she had a halo from the sun. She was backlit by God. And Bill Goldman… said, 'Well, that's what I wrote.'"