Post * kO67B — Curious Curator

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TIL the hairy frog aka the wolverine frog gets its name from its behavior of breaking its own bones and sticking them out out of its skin to use as sharp weapons. It is the only known animal with this behavior.

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E1LP0 TIL Radiohead were so inspired by iron lungs, they went into a hospital to shoot one in order to use it as the artwork for their second album. However they found it boring and instead used footage of a PCR mannequin. They said it expressed "sensations of extasy and agony, simultaneously".

OoD1e TIL that AMC counted 942 cigarettes were smoked on the entire Mad Men TV-Series. You would see someone smoking at least every 5 minutes in each episode.

DWbe TIL that Peter Ostrum (aka Charlie Bucket in 1971) has never acted in another film other than Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and has a Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine.

e0kPL TIL that a Toddler’s life was saved by his aunt, after she noticed a white glow in one of his eyes in a photo- it was a cancerous tumour. From a photo album, his mother realised that the glow had been there his entire life. After 4 months of chemotherapy, the cancer went dormant.

v1BZR TIL That John Williams and Stephen Spielberg met in 1972 after Spielberg got a Universal executive to arrange for their meeting. Williams, charmed by Spielberg's enthusiastic personality, agreed to work with him, cementing one of the best known film and music partnerships.