Post * mGpy — Curious Curator

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TIL the average price of a NES game in 1990 was $50. Equivalent to about $90 in 2015.

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xVlBB TIL the original Iron Man movie was mostly improvised. Co-star Jeff Bridges claims that Downey Jr and director Jeff Favreau would ad-lib each day's scenes, using a general outline for a script

N75XQ TIL that in 2009 California milk processors funded a 22-minute rock opera titled "Battle for Milkquarious." It was marketed as "The most amazing rock opera ever made about milk."

69LPZ TIL after a boy in the 1930s found what looked like a "great lump of coal", his family used it as a doorstop for a decade until his dad had "a little look at it." This led to the realization it was the world's largest black sapphire. After being faceted, the Black Star of Queensland is 733 carats.

M10V TIL that one of the most difficult video games ever is Ghosts ‘n Goblins, in arcades in the 80s. Even if you managed to beat it, it was revealed that the boss had laid you a trap and that you had to beat the whole game again at a higher level of diffuclty.

QJ76E TIL Robert Blackwell co-wrote many of Little Richard's rock and roll hits including "Long Tall Sally"; "Good Golly Miss Molly"; "Ready Teddy"; and "Rip It Up". They have subsequently been covered by hundreds of artists including Elvis Presley, the Beatles