Post * oBLx8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr. for writing the Ghostbusters theme song, claiming he stole it from his hit, “I Want a New Drug”

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4a8X TIL that M&M’s actually stands for “Mars & Murrie’s,” the last names of the candy’s founders.

mxy8y TIL in 1698, Emperor Peter of Russia created the "Beard Tax". If you paid 60 Rubels, you got given a 'beard token' which you used to prove you had paid. None-payers had their faces shaved off in public.

80g4 TIL that in 1968, science fiction writer and atheist Isaac Asimov published “Asimov’s guide to the Bible”. Asimov treats the secular aspects of the Bible with intellectual instead of theological commentary.

WkEL4 TIL about Basil Zaharoff, He sold the Greek government a submarine, then told the Turkish government that the Greeks had a submarine, Turkey then bought 2 submarines. He then told the same to the Russian government who later bought 2 submarines as well. None of the submarines worked.

vKYB TIL that in some countries, and a small handful of US states, ‘None of the Above’ is a legitimate vote, and can result in new elections with new candidates.