Post * vP6r8 — Curious Curator

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TIL Lightning McQueen from “Cars” isn’t named after Steve McQueen, but after late Pixar animator Glenn McQueen, who died during the film’s production.

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mxQPO TIL Croatia's children concentration camp in Sisak was so brutal that even the Nazis questioned it. Some children were killed by being given poisoned milk or gruel laced with caustic soda.

0wKVN TIL one of the earliest depictions of a person wearing sunglasses is of a scientist in 1772. Yellow/amber-tinted spectacles were also a commonly prescribed item for people with syphilis in the 19th & early 20th centuries because sensitivity to light was one of the symptoms of the disease.

j4xa TIL a 10 year old used his college savings to buy William “The Fridge” Perry’s Super Bowl ring and to give it back to him

j6Exn TIL That the famous Chris Farley Sketch "Matt Foley: Motivational Speaker" was Written by Bob Odenkirk (BreakingBad/Better Call Saul)

5ReP TIL: A French mathematician named Abraham de Moivre claimed that he noted that he was sleeping an extra 15 minutes each night and calculated the date of his death as the day when the sleep time reached 24 hours, the date was November 27, 1754. On that exact same day, Moivre was found dead in London.