Post * yYyw — Curious Curator

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TIL: In 2013, a man bought a house next to his ex-wife, so he could install a middle finger statue.

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LkB80 TIL in the movie The Godfather, the horse head from the scene where Jack Woltz, played by John Marley, wakes up to find it lying in his bed, is from an actual dead horse. During rehearsals a fake one was used, and Marley wasn't told beforehand, so his screams during the actual shot were genuine.

p8EDQ TIL In late 1970s Italy coins have become scarce so shops used candy, bus tickets, and telephone tokens as change until banks started issuing a kind of non-money replacement

xVPOD TIL of the Marquis de Favras, who, on reading his death warrant, said “I see that you have made three spelling mistakes”

4kBD5 TIL that swinging our arms when walking makes us spend less energy and walk faster than if we tried to hold them still.

bd04 TIL Years later, when asked why Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg failed, Pickett reportedly replied: “I’ve always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.”