Post * v1eaR — Curious Curator

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TIL Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz are second cousins. Their grandfathers were brothers in the Bahamas.

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6mN7 TIL that only 3 WWE wrestlers uses their full, birth name. Brock Lesnar, John Cena, and Mark Henry

AND0d TIL Phil Collins approached Pete Townshend to replace Keith Moon in The Who shortly after his death but they had already recruited Kenney Jones

vPl14 TIL about the Shitbox Rally, an Australian long distance motoring event that raises money for cancer research. Each car in the rally has to cost less than $950 USD and can't be AWD/4WD. The Rally has raised almost $30 million USD so far.

gajA TIL that cats only meow for humans and in the wild they use other forms of communication

loRxr TIL that Michael McDowell, who wrote the screenplay of Tim Burton’s movie Beetlejuice, received a PhD in English from Brandeis. The title of his dissertation was “American Attitudes Toward Death, 1825–1865"