Post * x6jyg — Curious Curator

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TIL about the Paria Pipeline disaster. Because of the delta-p, 5 maintenance workers got sucked 60ft underwater, and hundreds of feet out to sea in a pipeline. One man managed to survive due to ‘miraculous’ events.

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p871Z TIL Mark Hamill played Mozart in the play Amadeus. When a movie adaptation of the play was being developed Mark Hamill wanted to audition to play Mozart again. Director Miloš Forman refused to let Hamill even audition for the part because he didn’t think Luke Skywalker should be playing the Mozart.

g9j7 TIL Dick Bong is the USs highest air ace, shooting down at least 40 planes during WW II. He actually collided with one plane, claiming a “probable” victory. In 1945, he became a Lockheed test pilot and died in a crash of a P-80 jet fighters on the same day that the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

GYNXj TIL In Ancient Greece, prostitutes were classified into two classes; the Pornai and the Hetairai. The Pornai served many men at once, and frequently worked on the street. In contrast, Hetarai were educated, had few clients, and provided companionship and intellectual discussion as well as sex.

d8Odr TIL about the 1961 Bobo doll experiment to study aggresion. Researchers physically abused an inflatable Clown doll in front of children, who then mimicked the behaviour, attacking Bobo in a similar fashion.

rNNXW TIL Contrary to popular belief, the City of New York was not named directly after York in England, but for the Duke of York, who was later crowned as King James II. When England seized the area from the Dutch, he was appointed as its proprietor by his older brother, King Charles II.