Post * kQmd — Curious Curator

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TIL of LeMons, a series of endurance races where teams compete for up to 24 hours in race-prepared cars that cost no more than US$500. The title is a parody of the long running annual 24 Hours of Le Mans race, and lemon cars.

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5YvX8 TIL that in the Japanese Anime Detective Conan, the voice actor for Detective Wataru Takagi is a voice actor named Wataru Takagi.

VMkAG TIL in 1989, MLB broadcaster Jim Rooker said he'd walk back to Pittsburgh from Philadelphia if the Pirates blew a 10-run lead. When the Phillies came back and won 15-11, Rooker hosted a a 300-plus-mile charity walk from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.

NQL6 TIL The voice actor of Boo in Monsters, Inc. was so young, it was difficult to get her to stand in the recording studio. The solution: they followed her around with a microphone.

R7gb1 TIL a radio DJ managed to get a non-existent book onto the New York Times Best Seller list by telling his listeners to request it in book stores, he also gave them a fake author name and a basic plot outline to convince others it was real

Br7MD TIL About Rachel Hoffman, a college student who was told the only way she’d get out of drug charges was to become a informant. She was ordered to buy 1,500 ecstasy pill, 2 oz of cocaine and two firearms. She was subsequently killed by one of those firearms and her body was found two days later.