Post * jNL8E — Curious Curator

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TIL if the film Something's Got to Give was released, Marilyn Monroe would've had the first topless scene in mainstream cinema.

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yQWXJ TIL: Gerhard Schrader was a chemist tasked to create new insecticides. He created Preparation 9/91 which killed insects, but also caused diarrhea, vomiting, and death. His employers stated he had failed. He then alerted the Nazis and was hired. He was paid $20,000 and soon developed Sarin gas.

J4dV TIL Gary Cooper was offered a part on the movie Gone with the Wind but rejected it saying, “Gone With the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history. I’m glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling flat on his nose, not me”. It became the highest grossing film of all time for inflation.

Q5lM TIL at 52, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman married 18-year-old Mandy Smith but divorced after a year. Bill’s 30-year-old son then Stephen married Mandy’s mother, age 46. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father’s father-in-law and his own grandpa.

VMx84 TIL Art Garfunkel has kept a list of every book he's read since 1968, and lists Fifty Shades of Grey among his favorites

P1lrJ TIL There are no Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants in Buffalo