Post * nKVB — Curious Curator

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TIL that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson consumes 820lbs of cod alone per yer as a dietary staple

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YYWG TIL that animals and their meat have different names (e.g. deer = venison) because the peasants that raised the animals used the animal’s Germanic name while the aristocracy that ate them used the French name.

ej94 TIL believing that his comic strip , ‘Calvin and Hobbes,’ only works in print form, cartoonist Bill Watterson has refused to ever sell the film rights to his comics and has turned down offers from Steven Spielberg and Pixar.

wLnP7 TIL that Steven King was once hit by a van. He ended up buying the van and destroying it to make himself feel better

Q0Ga TIL Robert Ballard’s mission to find the Titanic, was actually a secret Cold War mission to find and investigate wrecked nuclear submarines Thresher and Scorpion. They finished earlier, so they spent the extra time looking for the Titanic and found it.

WwXY TIL A Neurosurgeon, Dr. Robert White, performed a successful head transplant of a monkey in the 1970’s. The monkey could hear, smell, taste and feel for several minutes.