Post * pY1nO — Curious Curator

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TIL Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Academy Award (Gone with the Wind, 1939), was not allowed to attend the film’s premiere in Atlanta, had to sit at a segregated table at the Oscars, and was denied her final request to be buried at Hollywood Cemetery when she died in 1952.

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v1vZ4 TIL that cocktails such as Rum and Coke and Jack and Coke, use Coke, not Pepsi, because of the popularity of a song called “Rum and Coca-Cola.” Pepsi offered to pay to rename the song, but was outbid. It became the second-highest grossing song of the 1940s, behind "White Christmas."

BrQD TIL One gallon (4 liters) of gasoline has about 31 million calories.

awp8L TIL that due to altitude, your tastebud sensitivity to salts and sweets are reduced 30%. And because 80% of what people think is taste is actually smell, the 12% humidity in a pressurized airplane cabin causes odor receptors not to function, food tastes twice as bland than on the ground.

9nwD TIL actor Stephen Tobolowsky (Ned Ryerson) was held hostage at a Dallas Safeway when he was 25. A stranger stopped him and said “I see you have mangos, the most exotic of fruit” before putting a .45 to his head. Tobolowsky then gave the man his actual address and invited him over for dinner.

v19bj TIL that a fumi-e was a likeness of Jesus or Mary which the religious authorities of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan required suspected Christians to step on, in order to demonstrate that they were not members of the outlawed religion.