Post * yVe1V — Curious Curator

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TIL The Bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in a US Court

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Oo8d7 TIL - Cast Away screenwriter Bill Broyles Jr. spent 10 days on an isolated Mexican island for research purposes. He learned how to spear fish and ate them raw, licked water off of leaves and most significantly he befriended a Wilson branded volleyball that washed up on the beach.

oBZRW TIL That, on request of the family of Sir Winston Churchill, there is always a marmalade cat called Jock in residence at Chartwell house. Currently it is Jock VI.

OwRL TIL at birth Muhammad Ali was named for Cassius Clay, a Kentucky Congressman of the 19th century who fought to abolish slavery and was named by Lincoln as the US Ambassador to Russia where he gained Russian support for the Union.

jNaAv TIL that in 1986, Alfonse D’Amato, a New York Senator, resorted to reading aloud from the District of Columbia phone book during a 23 ½ hour filіbuster. 6 years later, the same Senator started singing a song satirising the outsourcing of American jobs during a 15 ¼ hour fіlibuster

1apRr TIL Joseph Merrick, more popularly known as the Elephant Man, had to sleep sitting up because of the extra weight his deformities put on his head. According to his autopsy, he died of a dislocated neck by trying to sleep lying down, in order to "be like other people."