Post * eKQE — Curious Curator

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TIL In 1958 Dutch Composer Tom Dissevelt tried to make “popular” electronic music. This track was the result. You could say he was 30 years ahead of his time.

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dalQ TIL that a graffiti artist bought an abandoned warehouse in Iowa and recreated, in half-size, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling.

epdRL TIL Mark Twain outlived his wife and all but one of his four children

ZGoo TIL that while filming for his reality show, Ted Nugent was cutting down a tree to create a stump for a show contestant to sit on when he managed to cut his own leg with a chainsaw requiring 40 stiches

QJrYk TIL the United States, under Reagan, forced both Japan and Germany to sign the Plaza Accord. The agreement that would depreciate the Dollars at the costs of Yen and Mark appreciating greatly. This decision utterly destroyed Japan’s economy in the 1990s and beyond.

v1wjL TIL in 1398, Timur the Lame faced an army that had war elephants armoured with chain mail and poison on their tusks. Timur loaded his camels with wood and hay, and then when the elephants charged, he lit them on fire and forced them onwards. The elephants panicked and turned around.