Post * rR6y1 — Curious Curator

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TIL Evel Knievel tried to beat a man to death with a baseball bat in 1977 for writing a book that portrayed Knievel as "an immoral person".

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v1kNj TIL of Don Marion Davis, who at 102 is the oldest surviving actor of the silent movie era, who was one of the most famous child actors worldwide

kJGYm TIL there is still no scientific consensus for why "the dress" appears as either white-and-gold or black-and-blue

ADvra TIL of Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist who kept a vast collection of handwritten notes on top secret files. When he defected to British Intelligence in 1992, he brought six trunks of notes with him that exposed most KGB activities in the West during the Cold War

VMOJZ TIL of the “megapode,” a species of bird so physically mature at birth that they already have flight feathers and can take off within hours of hatching.

Ooe71 TIL During the production of the music video for Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer, Peter Gabriel had to lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while the stop motion effects were animated one frame at a time.