Post * rRJd0 — Curious Curator

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TIL Monowi already has one claim to fame – it’s officially the smallest town in America. It has just one resident – 80something Elsie Eiler, who acts as the mayor, librarian, town clerk, and bartender.

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8aeP8 TIL The Twilight Zone was initially a difficult series to sell, and critics were not impressed. In a 1959 interview with Rod Serling, Mike Wallace asked: "You're going to be working so hard on The Twilight Zone that, in essence, you've given up on writing anything important for television, right?".

Lko5m TIL when Japanese pole vaulters Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Oe tied for silver at the 1936 Olympics they refused a tie-breaker. The silver was arbitrarily awarded to Nishida. They had their medals cut in half and then welded together so they each had one "friendship medal" of half silver, half bronze.

OoePR TIL that cops will often touch the tail light of a car that they just pulled over in order to leave their finger print in case it is later needed for evidence.

JYxA8 TIL that in terms of the average number of steps required to link actors to other actors, Kevin Bacon is only the 543rd ranked actor in Hollywood history. The actors with the lowest average number of steps are Christopher Lee, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, and Donald Sutherland

6EOJ8 TIL Ariel Castro, the kidnapper who locked up and abused 3 missing girls including Amanda Berry for 10 years, committed suicide one month into his 1,000 year prison sentence.