Post * nened — Curious Curator

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TIL that a "nickelodeon" was an early type of small movie theater that cost a nickel

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R5r5a TIL that, in the 1870’s, Oscar Wilde was madly in love with a young woman named Florence Balcome for two years, only to lose her to author Bram Stoker

4XKMX TIL that in the 1930s, Meyer Lansky (a major mob figure) would frequently disrupt Nazi rallies by breaking legs, cracking skulls and throwing attendants out of windows.

jbpp TIL of “learned helplessness”, when an organism has endured enough averse stimuli which it was unable to escape or avoid, it gives up and becomes unable to learn escape in the future, even in situations where such behavior would be effective

bD99 TIL OJ Simpson was nearly cast as the Terminator, but the studio was afraid that no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.

VMe44 TIL Scott Joplin the man who revolutionized the way piano is played was turned away from backing of financial suitors because he was black and it didn't suit them. He ended up contracting syphilis and was admitted into a psychiatric hospital. He died ther and his grave was unmarked for 57 years.