Post * neBP9 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the game craps is called craps because the name derives from the French word crapaud, meaning toad, where players would squat down in the streets like toads

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1XW7 TIL During the making of “Rocky”, Sylvester Stallone asked Earnie Shavers (widely regarded as the hardest puncher in boxing) to punch him for real. After 1 punch, Stallone vomited.

NXA8N TIL in 2015 a plane crashed into the home of the neighbors of Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney in Plainville, Massachusetts. Three people died in the crash.

kded TIL The number of skin cancer cases due to tanning is higher than the number of lung cancer cases due to smoking

WkYX8 TIL its implied by the initial writer for the Pokémon anime, there were plans to end the series by the Gold and Silver era and he reveals that he had an ending drafted, in which the last episode reveals an elderly Ash Ketchum had hallucinated the entire events of the show

ne6no TIL that a cat co-authored a physics paper in 1975