Post * jEbQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that a roman poet wrote such an NSFW poem, that it was not publicly translated until the late twentieth century.

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BrYBd TIL the country dial-code of the Czech Republic is 420 and the rate of cannabis use there is one of the highest in the world. In 2016, Snoop Dogg was a contestant on The $100,000 Pyramid, and replied without delay that the country code for the Czech Republic is 420.

aw9YZ TIL the actor who played Dr. John Spivey in the movie “One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest” was a real doctor who during shooting, diagnosed actor William Redfield with leukemia who died only a year later

KY07w TIL The popular song Mah Nà Mah Nà from the Muppets comes from an Italian soft-porn movie

lXB TIL that an ancient sequoia tree that has been alive for most of humanity’s modern history was cut down in 1891 so that slabs of its trunk could be displayed in museums.

rPA1 TIL when Arthur Guinness was starting his brewery, he was so certain of its success he leased an unused brewery in Dublin for 9,000 years at a rate of £45 per year.