Post * l8A7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that 14-year-old Kurt Cobain announced to a schoolmate that he’d be a superstar musician, get rich and famous, kill himself and go out in a blaze of glory like Jimi Hendrix

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9wAAr TIL that Leonard Cohen didn’t gain any royalties from his 1968 song "Suzanne", and he only benefited from the song when he performed it live, as he signed away his rights to the song in a legal document deceptively presented to him which he did not read.

E1ae0 TIL that the jury selection for the O. J. Simpson trial had very strict rules about exposure to the media. One juror was excluded for watching cartoons with her children, another for waking up to a clock radio. When a book about O. J. and Nicole came out, jurors were warned to keep out of bookstores

QJA96 TIL The Three Stooges performed at the very first Super Bowl Halftime Show. During their performance, Larry Fine spotted a football player hitting on his wife. He flipped him the bird, and for this he got in trouble with CBS and had to pay a fine of $42.50.

n9VY TIL that many words used to be spelled phonetically (e.g. debt was ‘det’) until some scholars purposely added silent letters to make them look more like Greek or Latin words, sometimes erroneously.

bLd0 TIL that the knights in Monty Python And The Holy Grail were originally supposed to ride real horses, but the film’s budget was too small, hence the addition of the coconut joke.