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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Wk7pX TIL the tinkers and tinker's craft (mending utensils with wires) originated from Slovakia in 18th century

vP8N8 TIL As a child, Alice Munro was appalled by the ending of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson and rewrote the ending to a happy one

lOkV TIL Three Yemeni men sued NASA for invading Mars. They claim that they “inherited the planet from our ancestors 3,000 years ago”. They based their argument on mythologies of the Himyaritic and Sabaean civilizations that existed several thousand years B.C.

kOYp1 TIL: that the phrase ‘devil’s advocate’ comes from a medieval job title. The ‘advocatus diaboli’ was the guy tasked with coming up with counter arguments when a priest was nominated to be blessed or canonized.

b6Lj4 TIL former (80s-90s) SNL star Dana Carvey's inspiration for the hugely popular "Church Lady" character was a condescending voice affectation he came up with to deal with hecklers when he was doing stand-up comedy in the years before his break into SNL.