Post * kJB57 — Curious Curator

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TIL Mel Gibson told Jim Caviezel “You'll never work in this town again” if he were to take the role of Jesus Christ in Passion of the Christ. He went through with the role and has found it difficult to find any gigs since.

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6Ev7l TIL about "The Radium Girls", female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. The women, told the paint was harmless, ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to "point" their brushes between their lips for a fine point.

8abEb TIL: If the song “Empty Spaces” from Pink Floyd's, “The Wall” is played backwards, you can hear the phrase “Hello looker. Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont." As well as, "Roger! Carolyne's on the phone"

OGep1 TIL that before the United States Supreme Court held its Inaugural Session at the Royal Exchange Marketplace in New York City, city officials moved the market's butchers and placed chains across the street so as to spare the court of the sounds of the busy marketplace.

XQN6 TIL of a tree native to Mexico with the common name “Gringo Tree” named so because it’s skin bark starts off white, turns red, and then flakes off much like tourists that visit the country.

Jdrj TIL That Auburn football star Tre Mason’s father, Vincent Mason, is a member of rap group De La Soul, and recorded the laugh heard in the Gorillaz song “Feel Good Inc.”