Post * rRe50 — Curious Curator

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TIL that while filming Batman and Robin the beautiful Alicia Silverstone was referred to as “Fatgirl” by both critics and people on the production end. A Storyboard artist even drew a nasty cartoon of her as an “inside joke.”

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KO556 TIL that during the second Vatican Council, a Cardinal from Belgium shouted "Why are we even discussing the future of the Church when half the Church is not even here?" Referring to the lack of women religious on the Council. 23 women were then appointed as auditors

D1Oer TIL about the Bay of Jars. A collection of ancient Roman ceramic jars found in the waters outside Rio de Janeiro suggesting that the ancient Romans visited Brazil centuries before the Portuguese.

VBvAp TIL that the Sagamihara stabbings occurred on 26 July 2016 in Sagamihara, Japan. Nineteen people were killed and twenty-six injured at a care home for disabled people. The attacker, former employee Satoshi Uematsu, surrendered and was sentenced to death. It is Japan’s deadliest mass stabbing.

4P0b TIL that there is a school of thought that a major war between the supporters and opponents of intelligent machines, resulting in billions of deaths, is almost inevitable before the end of the 21st century.

49lX TIL the Wizard of Oz filmmakers used a white horse and sponged it down with different colors of Jell-O crystals to create the “horse-of-a-different-color.” The horse made it difficult to film as it wanted to lick the crystals off itself.