Post * rNVOx — Curious Curator

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TIL Tom Leykis, who was a famous radio talk show host in the Los Angeles area, was originally cast to play Dr. Marvin Monroe on The Simpsons, but was subsequently fired before the show aired.

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VMJrm TIL That women are better at discerning shades of colours, while men are better at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance. These are evolutionary details linked to a hunter-gatherer past.

A9En TIL: Patty Cannon was the leader of a gang in the early 19th century that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.

VMKpp TIL Mountain Dew was originally developed as a mixer for liquor. Tennessee bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman developed Mountain Dew as a mixer in the 1940s as they had difficulty in Knoxville obtaining their preferred soda to mix with liquor, preferably whiskey, so they developed their own.

ZpR0p TIL Empress Lü Zhu, wife of the founder of the Han Dynasty was an absolute psychopath, arresting her husband's favourite concubine after his death. She had the concubine's limbs cut off, eyes gouged out, ears cut off, was forced to drink a poison that made her mute and was thrown into a latrine.

V50k TIL Marie Curie, a Polish radium physicist in the 20th century was exposed to so much radiation during her life that her notebooks must be kept in lead-lined boxes. They will still be dangerously radioactive for another 1,500+ years.