Post * oBOE7 — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Hotel Mario theme song was based off a tune used in the 1933 film "Little Women"

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yQpaM TIL about Leonid Rogozov, a Soviet surgeon on a 1961 Antarctic research expedition. His appendix went bad during their winter. Since they had no access to the outside world, he had to remove his own appendix almost entirely by touch, with only a novocaine shot. He was back on the job in 2 weeks.

P1QXV TIL 19th century African-American baseball player Ulysses Franklin "Frank" Grant is credited with inventing shin guards after hostile white players slid spikes-first into black players.

mxrVo TIL that Young Brothers Pharmacy, in Cartersville GA, is home to the first Coca-Cola wall mural. According to Coca-Cola, the mural was painted in 1894 on the side of Young Bros. Drug Company in downtown Cartersville. A Coca-Cola syrup salesman named James Coudon painted it.

DQn1j TIL that before Jim Henson created The Muppets, he did a series of commercials where a Kermit-like puppet uses extreme violence and straight up murder to promote Wilkins Coffee.

nedPd TIL that only about 43% of the human body's cells are human. The rest are microscopic organisms.