Post * prE8 — Curious Curator

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TIL the remaining members of Monty Python sang “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” at Graham Chapman’s funeral

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Y7QJ7 TIL that the 1982 horror film Swamp Thing was based on the DC character of the same name who was created in 1972

X0Qbr TIL that Flying Dutchman's legend origins have nothing to do with piracy, Caribbean or North Atlantic; it was first recorded in late 18th century near Cape of Africa, then a Dutch colony.

eAdL TIL that during the Cold War America used bears to test their ejector seats in supersonic jets.

BrpDW TIL: Only 91 of the 3,715 animals in the Berlin Zoo survived World War II. After the Soviet occupation of Berlin, most of these remaining animals were eaten by Red Army soldiers or simply "dissapeared".

p7De TIL Heath Ledger kept a “Joker Diary” in which he wrote as the Joker, and included a list of things he thought the Joker would find funny, including blind babies and AIDS