Post * lxJA — Curious Curator

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TIL Kevin Smith once joined a group of protesters in demonstrating against his own movie Dogma.

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DQMrr TIL the "Kamikaze of 1274 and 1281" otherwise known as "The Divine Wind", is massively attributed to the ending of the Mongol invasions. Along with the Mamluks stopping their western expansion, The divine wind typhoons blew through some hundreds of ships, devastating a force of 140,000 Mongols.

AO6w TIL the State of Texas employs 10,000 more prison guards than school teachers.

lZpB TIL that when critics accused David Lee Roth of only writing songs about partying , women, and cars he realized he actually hadn’t written any songs about cars so he wrote “Panama”.

NZ6e TIL that Roald Dahl (author of “Matilda,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and others) helped save thousands of childrens’ lives by coordinating the creation of an improved cerebral shunt.

Z84EG TIL in 1996, David Bowie released the first downloadable song by a major artist (it took 11 minutes to download). He later launched an ISP (BowieNet) to compete with AOL. Subscribers to the dial-up service were offered exclusive content, as well as an email address and "uncensored" Internet access.