Though people say that curiosity is what killed the cat, being curious often results in learning all sorts of fascinating stuff. Some sourcessuggestthat it can even lead to a higher success rate in life!
If you’re a curious person yourself, you can probably attest that such people can be interested in a hundred things at once; they might be delving deeper into the subtleties of a certain animal species one minute and be watching documentaries about the New York City Ballet the next.
Upon scrolling below you will also findBored Panda’sinterview with an author, speaker, consultant, and behavioral expert specializing in curiosity,Dr. Diane Hamilton, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions regarding people’s desire to learn more and more.
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In the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald wasn’t allowed to perform in Hollywood’s most popular nightclub, The Mocambo, because of her race. Marilyn Monroe called the owner and explained that if he booked Ella, she would be there every night. He booked Ella and Marilyn was there, front table, every single night as promised. Ella said, “After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman, a little ahead of her time, and she didn’t even know it.“
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In a recent interview withBored Panda, an expert in curiosity, Dr. Diane Hamilton, pointed out that many things, from the environment to the people we interact with, and beyond, can influence the extent of how curious we are.“If you travel to a new country, for instance, you might become curious about its culture, history, or cuisine,” the expert suggested, saying that our experiences, culture, and environment play a major role in regards to curiosity. “Our immediate surroundings and the people we interact with greatly influence what we find interesting as well. If you grow up in a tech-savvy family, you might develop a curiosity for coding or innovation.”
In a recent interview withBored Panda, an expert in curiosity, Dr. Diane Hamilton, pointed out that many things, from the environment to the people we interact with, and beyond, can influence the extent of how curious we are.
“If you travel to a new country, for instance, you might become curious about its culture, history, or cuisine,” the expert suggested, saying that our experiences, culture, and environment play a major role in regards to curiosity. “Our immediate surroundings and the people we interact with greatly influence what we find interesting as well. If you grow up in a tech-savvy family, you might develop a curiosity for coding or innovation.”
“I was, like, completely speechless.“In July 2022, seven-year-old Liam Fisher, his 10-year-old brother Jessin, and their nine-year-old cousin Kaiden Madsen were out for a hike near the tiny town of Marmarth, North Dakota. The boys then saw what looked like a small fossil sticking out of the ground. Liam initially thought it was just a “chunk-osaurus,” a made-up name these aspiring paleontologists created for any fossil fragment that’s too small to identify. And when they showed it to a family friend, a paleontologist at a museum in Denver, he thought it might belong to a common duckbill dinosaur known as a hadrosaurus. But when the boys returned to the site and resumed their dig, they quickly came across a jawbone with enormous teeth sticking out of it — and soon realized that they’d actually uncovered a T. rex.
In 1882, a Seychelles giant tortoise was gifted to William Grey-Wilson, the future governor of St. Helena. The creature was later named Jonathan, and he has since lived to see 30 more governors take office. Based on his size when he arrived on the island, experts believe Jonathan was born no later than 1832 — which means the 191-year-old reptile is both the world’s longest living land animal and the oldest known tortoise to ever live.
“Media, education, and social influences also play a significant role,” Dr. Hamilton continued. “Curiosity is fluid, often evolving with new experiences and exposure to different ideas, people, and places. It’s a mix of what’s novel to us and what feels relevant or impactful in our current stage of life.”
On May 18, 1980, Washington’s Mount St. Helens erupted in a cataclysmic blast that left 57 people dead and an area the size of Chicago completely devastated. That day, a freelance photographer named Robert Landsburg was just four miles from the summit when the volcano erupted, and he managed to capture a series of haunting images as a tidal wave of ash and hot gas raced toward him. Ultimately, when he realized he wasn’t going to survive, Landsburg used his final moments to make sure that his photos would, so he shielded the film with his body.
The 1883 eruption of Indonesia’s Krakatoa volcano was so gargantuan that it’s almost impossible to comprehend. The loudest sound in recorded history, it ruptured the eardrums of people more than 40 miles from the epicenter, created a sound wave that circled the globe seven times and could be heard all the way in New York City — more than 10,000 miles away. And even those around the world who didn’t hear the blast still reported seeing the sun turn purple, the moon turn blue, and the sky turn red. In fact, the sky grew so red as far away as Connecticut that one local fire department was dispatched to put out what they were sure was a blaze burning somewhere right in town. From calamity to heroism to the just plain bizarre, these lesser-known history facts will take you inside the most interesting moments from humanity’s past
“Curiosity often fades due to four key factors I refer to as FATE: Fear, Assumptions, Technology, and Environment. Fear can prevent us from exploring new ideas due to the risk of failure or judgment. Assumptions, or preconceived notions, narrow our thinking and prevent us from considering new possibilities. Technology, while opening doors to information, can also lead to superficial engagement or distractions that diminish deeper exploration. Finally, our environment—whether it’s our workplace, social circle, or culture—can either encourage or stifle curiosity. These factors collectively contribute to why curiosity often peaks around age six and declines dramatically unless actively nurtured,” Dr. Hamilton explained.
“It is a truly unprecedented discovery and one of the greatest finds in British palaeontological history.“Paleontologists in England have uncovered the remains of a prehistoric sea monster larger and more complete than anything ever found in the country before. Its head alone is about twice as heavy as a grizzly bear while its entire body is longer than a school bus. What’s more, researchers now believe this 180-million-year-old discovery may just be the “tip of the iceberg,” and that both this ichthyosaur’s last meal and its unborn offspring may be sitting inside its enormous stomach.
“The otter was shredding, caught a couple of nice waves.“Over the past few years, reports of a renegade otter stealing surfers' boards have emerged around Santa Cruz, California. But those reports have skyrocketed since mid-June as this ill-tempered sea otter has reached a new level of aggression. This five-year-old female has commandeered several surfboards in recent weeks, and while some surfers have enjoyed their experiences with the animal, otter specialists are quick to emphasize the danger of such a close encounter. With razor-sharp teeth and jaws strong enough to crush clams and mussels, they pose a clear threat to the surfers — but the risk goes both ways. If the otter were to bite a human, the state would be forced to euthanize her. Signs now line the coast warning surfers of the threat: “Aggressive Sea Otter In This Area. Enter The Water At Your Own Risk.“
Nowadays, it might seem that people should be more curious than ever, with all theinformationthey have at their fingertips. However, the answer to whether or not they are more curious than, let’s say, a few decades ago, depends largely on how they put the means that they’ve got to use.“In some ways, people today are more curious due to the incredible access to information, tools, and resources not available a hundred years ago. The internet, for example, allows us to explore diverse topics from the comfort of our homes,” Dr. Hamilton said.“However, this same access can lead to information overload and echo chambers, which reinforce what we already know instead of encouraging open exploration. Whether people today are more or less curious depends significantly on how they use these tools—are they diving deep and exploring diverse perspectives, or are they just skimming the surface? Encouraging critical thinking and curiosity-driven learning is essential to harness the potential of today’s resources.”
Nowadays, it might seem that people should be more curious than ever, with all theinformationthey have at their fingertips. However, the answer to whether or not they are more curious than, let’s say, a few decades ago, depends largely on how they put the means that they’ve got to use.
“In some ways, people today are more curious due to the incredible access to information, tools, and resources not available a hundred years ago. The internet, for example, allows us to explore diverse topics from the comfort of our homes,” Dr. Hamilton said.
“However, this same access can lead to information overload and echo chambers, which reinforce what we already know instead of encouraging open exploration. Whether people today are more or less curious depends significantly on how they use these tools—are they diving deep and exploring diverse perspectives, or are they just skimming the surface? Encouraging critical thinking and curiosity-driven learning is essential to harness the potential of today’s resources.”
Researchers in Australia were trawling the Winton Formation, a nearly 100 million-year-old geological rock bed, for sauropod bones when they accidentally stumbled upon something remarkable. Preserved in siltstone was about 35 percent of a prehistoric crocodile, including the entire skull. The fossil had been partially crushed, but that damage also revealed dinosaur bones — inside the creature’s stomach. It took delicate work with X-rays, CT scans, and computer modeling to recreate the tiny creature inside the crocodile, but eventually, researchers found it was an ornithopod. Small, beaked plant-eaters that lived 100 million years ago, ornithopods were some of the most successful and evolved herbivores of the Cretaceous period — though this one ended up in the belly of a crocodile.
Russian gold miners were recently excavating a new quarry in Siberia when they spotted something completely unexpected in the permafrost: a mummified woolly rhino. The creature’s horn was still intact, as were some of its soft tissues. Woolly rhinos went extinct in the region more than 10,000 years ago, so the level of preservation seen in the specimen is extremely rare — and it may even allow scientists to extract DNA
If curiosity is what leads you to browsing lists such as this one, you don’t have to worry – your sense of curiosity shouldn’t fade anytime soon. “Browsing random facts can serve as a ‘curiosity trigger’ that ignites interest in subjects we may not have considered before,” Dr. Hamilton explained.“This aligns with the ‘curiosity gap’ theory, where the brain is naturally inclined to close the gap between what it knows and what it wants to learn. Encountering unexpected or surprising information can spark an interest to dig deeper. However, turning that initial spark into sustained curiosity requires more than just browsing; it involves deeper inquiry and engagement with the material.”
If curiosity is what leads you to browsing lists such as this one, you don’t have to worry – your sense of curiosity shouldn’t fade anytime soon. “Browsing random facts can serve as a ‘curiosity trigger’ that ignites interest in subjects we may not have considered before,” Dr. Hamilton explained.
“This aligns with the ‘curiosity gap’ theory, where the brain is naturally inclined to close the gap between what it knows and what it wants to learn. Encountering unexpected or surprising information can spark an interest to dig deeper. However, turning that initial spark into sustained curiosity requires more than just browsing; it involves deeper inquiry and engagement with the material.”
“I honestly can’t believe you’re alive. It really makes no sense.“Cladophialophora bantiana is a rare, subtropical fungus that can attach itself to the brain — and 31-year-old Tyson Bottenus of Rhode Island is now living with just one of about 120 cases in recorded history. Also known as “black mold” because of how it appears on brain MRIs, the fungus causes seizures, headaches, and strokes — and is almost always fatal. Bottenus himself suffered one stroke so severe that he had to re-learn how to walk, speak, and read from scratch. Doctors are still treating his case aggressively — and they’re astounded that he’s still alive.
In mid-August, archaeologists were excavating a medieval site in the Icelandic village of Seyðisfjörður when they made an astonishing discovery. Buried in the floor of an old longhouse was a small animal figurine measuring just an inch tall and two inches long. Carved from volcanic rock, this artifact appears to resemble a bear or a pig, though some have suggested that it could be a dog. Now, researchers believe it was likely a toy, making it a remarkably rare discovery
The horse was found in full saddle suggesting that it was being prepped to rescue those fleeing the volcanic eruption.
According to the expert, people’s sense of curiosity can affect not only their personal lives (the amount of time they spend browsing lists of random facts, for instance), but theircareers, too.“Curiosity is thespark for everythingemployers aim to improve—engagement, innovation, and productivity. It’s also the trait that will help us effectively collaborate with AI and navigate an increasingly complex world. To foster curiosity, organizations need to create environments where it’s safe to explore, question, and challenge the status quo.“Curiosity is not just about seeking answers, it’s about creating a culture where continuous learning and innovation thrive.”
According to the expert, people’s sense of curiosity can affect not only their personal lives (the amount of time they spend browsing lists of random facts, for instance), but theircareers, too.
“Curiosity is thespark for everythingemployers aim to improve—engagement, innovation, and productivity. It’s also the trait that will help us effectively collaborate with AI and navigate an increasingly complex world. To foster curiosity, organizations need to create environments where it’s safe to explore, question, and challenge the status quo.
“Curiosity is not just about seeking answers, it’s about creating a culture where continuous learning and innovation thrive.”
“She was an old lady. I ate it because it was well sealed, right? But I’ve been feeling so weak since then. My heart is racing. I’ve thrown up. But I have this taste in my mouth… So bitter. Bad. My vision is blurry. I’m so weak.“Fernanda Silva Valoz da Cruz Pinto was walking through the city center of Maceió, Brazil on August 3rd when she met an old woman who claimed to be a fortune teller. Pinto stopped to have her palm read — and the woman told her she had only a few days left to live. At the end of the session, the fortune teller gave Pinto a chocolate, which the 27-year-old accepted. But only a few hours after eating the candy, Pinto suddenly came down with a set of bizarre symptoms. She felt dizzy, had blurred vision, and began vomiting and foaming at the mouth — and chillingly, just as the fortune teller predicted, Pinto died at the hospital the following day. Now, two months later, toxicology reports have revealed that Pinto had high concentrations of toxic pesticides in her body when she died — and her family believes the “fortune teller” poisoned her.
Invasive raccoons with a penchant for beer have been running rampant in Germany, breaking into homes, causing thousands in damage, and even killing some pets. The “unbelievably adaptable” animals, first introduced to the country around 90 years ago, have comfortably adjusted to the country. Efforts have long been underway to curb the raccoon population, but eradication seems out of the question as they’ve become a “plague in some parts of the country.”
A robot gorilla was sent to spy on wild gorillas in Uganda and filmed them singing at dinner and farting uncontrollably. In order to convince the gorillas that the robot was one of them, its creators rubbed it in feces and gave it realistic eyes.
“It’s really special because generally the soft tissues, the skin, the organs, tendons, they don’t preserve in the fossil record. So this is something really unique.“Scientists were thrilled to find a partial fossil of a duck-billed hadrosaur in a rocky hillside in Alberta, Canada, and they were even more delighted to learn that an extremely rare full skeleton may still be entombed in the stone. But perhaps the most unique part of the discovery was the layer of rough skin that still covered the dinosaur’s tail and hind leg. Now, paleontologists are excavating the rest of the fossil, hoping that the find will help them determine what hadrosaurs really looked like.
In April 2024, a user named Kidipadeli75 posted to Reddit, claiming that he had found what appeared to be a human jawbone embedded in the floor tiles of his parents' home. “My parents just got their home renovated with [travertine] stone,” the user wrote, alongside a photo of the bone. “This looks like a section of mandible. Could it be a hominid? Is it usual?” A bit of research soon revealed that the travertine limestone tiles had come from the Denizli Basin in western Turkey, where researchers have previously uncovered fossils of everything from prehistoric human remains to mammoths. Incredibly, the stone within this quarry was formed between 0.7 million and 1.8 million years ago, indicating that the jawbone could be more than a million years old.
Researchers in China have uncovered 1,300-year-old cannabis inside the tomb of an ancient warrior. Though cannabis was cultivated widely throughout ancient China for its nutritional value and its seeds were often consumed in a porridge, this particular strain was chosen for its psychoactive properties. Now, this rare discovery is confirming longstanding theories about cannabis' use as a mind-altering drug in ancient China
In 2019, a family in the Spanish town of Carmona was renovating their home when they stumbled upon a 2,000-year-old tomb from the Roman era right in their backyard. The six urns found inside all contained cremated human remains, but one of them also held a mysterious reddish-brown liquid that has now been identified as the world’s oldest wine ever found.A white wine not unlike some of the sherries still produced in the region to this day, this particular wine has deepened in color over the course of two millennia, but has otherwise remained fresh. In fact, the wine is still drinkable after 2,000 years — so the researchers decided to taste it.
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“This was a pretty weird forest — not like any forest you would see today.“Researchers in England just discovered fossil evidence of the oldest forest in the world. Dated to about 390 million years, the prehistoric forest belonged to a geological period known as the Devonian period. This age marked a major change for life on Earth, in which the first seed-bearing plants appeared and the first four-legged amphibians made their way onto land. As such, this early forest looked a bit different from the ones we’re familiar with. Known as Calamophyton, the fossilized trees were something like “prototypes” of modern trees. Researchers say they would have looked like palms, but with thin trunks and hollow centers.
In the 1970s, scientists uncovered the fossilized remains of a massive prehistoric salmon called Oncorhynchus rastrosus in Oregon. Researchers could tell that the fish had inch-long teeth, but they were separated from the jaw, so they weren’t sure how they’d been attached. The scientists assumed they curved downward, similar to a saber-toothed tiger — but newly-discovered fossils just revealed that the fish’s teeth actually protruded laterally like a warthog’s tusks.
While the average person’s IQ hovers somewhere around 100, a horse rancher from Missouri named Christopher Langan has scored as high as 210. Though he may not be a household name, Langan is often recognized as the smartest person in the United States and perhaps the world. However, Langan also subscribes to a variety of bizarre conspiracy theories. Not only does he claim to be able to prove the existence of god, but he preaches the racist “white replacement theory,” 9/11 “trutherism,” and anti-vaccine messaging. In fact, over the past decade, Langan has become a minor star on the far right, with some describing him as “Alex Jones with a thesaurus.“
Paleontologists in India just identified a gargantuan prehistoric snake that roamed the Earth 47 million years ago. The largest living snake on Earth today is the reticulated python, with the longest specimen ever found measuring in at nearly 33 feet — but Vasuki indicus grew anywhere from 36 to 50 feet in length. The massive creature had at least 800 vertebrae and likely killed its prey through constriction. Although scientists aren’t sure what exactly Vasuki feasted on, they found creatures like ray fish, turtles, crocodilians, and primitive whales within the same fossil layer that may have served as its food source.
“What on Earth are they doing there?“ Scientists searching the depths of the Arctic Ocean for any signs of life happened upon an abundance of chlamydia and some of it was related to the variety that causes the STI in humans. How it survived in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth that’s devoid of virtually all other life remains a mystery
The National Museum of Ireland recently received a mysterious package in the mail from an anonymous sender — and opened it to find two ax heads that date to between 2150 and 2000 B.C.E. The donor included a note stating that they had found the artifacts in central Ireland using a metal detector, but they didn’t include any other details. It is illegal to search for archaeological treasures with a metal detector in the country without written permission from the government, so museum officials believe the person who found the ax heads wants to stay anonymous to avoid trouble. However, they are now asking the sender to contact them so they can better understand the true significance of the Bronze Age artifacts.
While exploring the sea floor off the coast of the uninhabited Sicilian island of Vendicari, underwater archaeologists spotted what looked to be an oddly shaped rock. But upon further inspection, the researchers realized that this “rock” was actually a metal battle helmet. Now dated to between the 15th and 17th centuries, the helmet is covered in layers of mineral cement but otherwise intact.
A citizen scientist just stumbled upon a brand new moth species in a West London park. The brown moth was given the name “Tachystola mulliganae” after Barbara Mulligan, the enthusiast who discovered it. DNA analysis showed that this specimen was a perfect match for another unnamed specimen found in Western Australia in 1886 — though it’s not entirely clear how this little insect made the journey from Western Australia.
For decades, archaeologists working all over northern Europe have been finding centuries-old swords inlaid with a mysterious inscription simply reading “Ulfberht.” Made of a special mixture of carbon steel, these blades boast exceptional power and durability, with many swords remaining stunningly intact even after 1,000 years. And although these Ulfberht swords were so well-crafted that they couldn’t be recreated until the Industrial Revolution, experts still don’t know who made them or where.Now, workers dredging a river in Poland just opened up a new chapter in this enduring mystery when they happened upon an Ulfberht sword in the Vistula River in Włocławek. Though some researchers have theorized that this sword may have belonged to a Viking warrior, its exact origins remain mysterious, just like all the Ulfberht swords unearthed before it.
Workers were recently removing invasive plants during a dune restoration project at a park in Knokke, Belgium, when they struck concrete just inches beneath the ground’s surface. Further excavations revealed three German bunkers from World War II that had been buried after the conflict ended in 1945. Alongside the bunkers, archaeologists unearthed two brick trenches, a water well, and part of a concrete path as well as utensils, cables, and ammunition from the war. After measuring and documenting the finds, researchers covered them with sand once more to preserve them for the future.
“The animal would have been so massive that I think it would have been able to prey effectively on anything that was unfortunate enough to be in its space… I have no doubt that this was sort of like an underwater T. Rex.“Scientists just uncovered a massive, 150-million-year-old pliosaur skull along England’s Jurassic Coast. An apex predator, the pliosaur was an aquatic reptile believed to have hunted plesiosaurs, dolphin-like creatures called ichthyosaurs, and even other pliosaurs. This prehistoric sea monster would have been “about the size of a doubledecker bus” at 32-39 feet long and had jaws powerful enough to kill its prey in a single bite. The newly discovered skull alone is nearly seven feet long and contains about 130 razor-sharp teeth, each of which is ridged at the back to help it slice into its prey.
A dolphin that appears to have “thumbs” was recently spotted off the coast of Greece — and it has experts baffled. All dolphins have bones within the soft tissue of their flippers that are similar to human fingers, but this specific creature seems to be missing the equivalent of its index and middle fingers, making the thumb-like protrusions visible. Scientists don’t think it was injured, so the deformation is likely the result of genetics, perhaps due to interbreeding among the three species of dolphins that live in the Gulf of Corinth.
The oldest person to ever live, Jeanne Calment reached the age of 122 before dying in her hometown of Arles, France in 1997. But along the way, she eschewed conventional medicine, smoked cigarettes until she was 117, and enjoyed a diet rich in red meat, wine, and two pounds of chocolate per week, saying, “I took pleasure when I could.“But is Calment’s story too crazy to be true? Due to inconsistencies in her story, some have claimed that Calment’s title as the oldest person to ever live may actually be a hoax, and that “Jeanne Calment” was actually that woman’s daughter, who assumed her mother’s identity upon her death in 1934.
“We know a reasonable amount about crucifixion … But it’s the first tangible evidence to actually see how it worked.”Archaeologists in England have just found the best evidence yet of the gruesome practice of crucifixion. A 25 to 35-year-old man who was crucified some 1,800 years ago during the Roman era was unearthed in Cambridgeshire with a nail still in his foot. Scientists believe he was a slave or prisoner who spent most of his life in shackles due to injuries and inflammation on his legs. At some point, it’s likely the man crossed either a boss or captor — and was made into a gruesome example, with the nail hammered in to stop him from “wriggling.” And although Romans typically removed nails from crucifixion victims in order to reuse them, in this case, the nail bent and became stuck in the man’s bone.
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When 32-year-old James Michael visited Southeast Africa with his friends, he thought it was the “trip of a lifetime.” But the Londoner ended up contracting schistosomiasis — a parasitic blood infestation — when a parasite crawled up his penis and laid eggs inside of his body. He spent three months in the hospital and relied on crutches for four months afterward, but he luckily survived the painful ordeal.
“This incredible discovery not only takes us back in time to the period when Copernicus was making his groundbreaking discoveries, but also opens up new possibilities to understand his methods of working.“In early August, a group of amateur archaeologists decided to excavate the gardens of Frombork, Poland where the famed Renaissance-era mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus once did much of his astronomical work. They were initially looking for a legendary tunnel that Copernicus purportedly used to travel between the building where he worked and the town’s cathedral. But as they were digging, they uncovered something much more surprising: a tiny 16th-century compass made of copper alloy. Now, researchers say this tool “could have belonged to Nicolaus Copernicus himself”
Ervino Silvestri was recently walking along the Torre riverbed in northeastern Italy when he happened to notice something strange peeking out of the gravel — which turned out to be a six-ton funerary altar from the days of ancient Rome. Aside from its upper right corner, the altar remains astonishingly intact, with an inscription of the family name still visible alongside ornate carvings of Erotes, winged gods associated with love and sex. Weighing in at six tons, more than most elephants, this limestone altar somehow sat undisturbed for more than 1,500 years.
“They’re very spiritual and majestic animals. You can’t help but feel a bit sad for its loss. But I’m really stoked that it will contribute to our understanding of the deep blue.“On July 4, a dead whale was found on a beach near Taieri Mouth, New Zealand. Now, experts believe the 16-foot-long creature is a male spade-toothed whale — the rarest whale in the world. First described in 1874 based on just a lower jaw bone and two teeth, this whale has only been documented six times and has never been seen alive. This latest specimen was fairly fresh, meaning scientists may be able to dissect it for the first time and learn more about this elusive species
A rancher in Montana is facing jail time after he admitted to trading sheep parts to breed a massive “Frankensheep” species. Beginning in 2013, 80-year-old Jack Schubarth illegally imported tissue and testicles from the Marco Polo argali sheep, a species native to Central Asia that can weigh over 300 pounds. He then sent the genetic material to a lab to create cloned embryos, which he implanted in ewes on his ranch to produce a pure genetic Marco Polo argali. Then, he used this clone — dubbed “Montana Mountain King” — to breed new hybrid sheep species, which he sold to various shooting preserves or game ranches.
Anthony Kiedis and Flea perform with The Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1986. That year, the band released their second commercial flop, and Kiedis was dealing with a h***in addiction so crippling that he often appeared at rehearsals only to fall asleep — right before LA Weekly named them “band of the year.”
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