Post * xBg0 — Curious Curator

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TIL That a blind mom was told that her baby had died during birth. Doctors gave the child, who was very much alive, to a new family.

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EYpd TIL that Hans Zimmer, composer of the MAN OF STEEL soundtrack and many many others, also wrote the song VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR way back in 1982

4X66R TIL Cats were very revered in Ancient Egypt. A mob lynched a Roman for accidentally killing a cat even though the Pharaoh Ptolemy XII tried to dissuade them.

epxMk TIL about cockentrice, a medieval dish consisting of a suckling pig's upper body sewn onto the bottom half of a capon or turkey [though other animal combinations were sometimes used].

o7lo TIL that in the show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the waitress that Charlie has an obsessive crush on is his actual wife in real life. They got married after the first season.

rE6w TIL Steve Jobs called his LSD experiences “one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life”