Post * p8OKZ — Curious Curator

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TIL: In the movie Rampage, when Dwayne Johnson signs his character's name (Davis Okoye) to George the Gorilla, it's actually American Sign Language for 'Rock'.

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MeKGm TIL that in 1885 Chief Sitting Bull spent four months playing himself in reconstructions of Custer’s Last Stand for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Historians are divided as to whether he cursed the audiences in the Lakota language during his performance.

m15GP TIL that Friedrich Engels had a famously strong libido. He had numerous affairs and, despite his condemnation of prostitution as "exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie", also paid for sex. In 1846, he wrote to Marx that "if there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living".

E7RP TIL an American socialist candidate, Eugene V. Debs, ran his campaign from the inside of a jail cell with the slogan “Vote for President Convict #9653” and garnered almost a million write-in votes in 1920

YLa7 TIL When asked about his sex life during an interview, Marlon Brando said, “Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.”

WkBeB TIL that A 1983 April Fools' Day edition of the Durand Express, reported that "dihydrogen oxide" had been found in the city's water pipes,and warned that it was fatal if inhaled,and could produce blistering vapours.The dihydrogen monoxide parody involves calling water by an unfamiliar chemical name.