Post * y9QM — Curious Curator

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TIL that when Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of Nirvana’s song, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” (which is called “Smells Like Nirvana) Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain considered the parody as a sign that they had "made it” as a band.

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Odp1 TIL that Leonardo da Vinci would dissect dead human remains and then draw what he saw. Dissection was completely illegal unless one was a physician, which da Vinci was not.

D1jAv TIL That Mike Row, the host of Dirty Jobs, was a former opera singer. This ended up landing him a job at QVC that he apparently got fired from 3 separate times.

OGyYR TIL the USA has the 2nd oldest constitution in the world (San Marino is #1)

8e61X TIL two mirrors facing each other don’t produce infinite reflections

VEwB TIL that in Disney universe, if an animal character wears clothes, he or she can own an animal character that doesn’t (courtesy of dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson)