Post * v1XZ7 — Curious Curator

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TIL an actor was hired to play John Lennon in a 1985 bio pic but then fired because he had the same name, Mark Chapman, as Lennon’s killer

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Y7MLr TIL that former Kenya first lady Lucy Kibaki once forced her husband to call a press conference, solely to declare that he only had one wife, Lucy.

5YxmQ TIL about Manganese Nodules. Found at the bottom of the ocean these rock concentrations contain all the components needed for electric car batteries. Its estimated to there are enough nodules to create over 200 million batteries in one patch alone. Their worth is estimated up to 16 trillion dollars.

oBj9A TIL: In his college days, Steve Wozniak used a blue box (an illegal phone hacking device) to call the Vatican. He pretended to be Henry Kissinger and asked to speak with the Pope but was denied because the Pope was asleep.

MWNb TIL the Dead Kennedys wrote the song “Nazi Punks, Fuck Off” because they wanted a song where they could insult the overwhelming amount of Neo-Nazis / Skinheads that showed up to their gigs.

L959 TIL Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl wrote and recorded a series of songs in 1990 and 1991. He declined to introduce the songs to Kurt Cobain thinking it would disrupt Kurt’s writing process. The songs were later released under the Pseudonym “Late!” On an album called “Pocketwatch”.