The film's production is replete with curious anecdotes.
Thomlinson does not hesitate to criticize his subjects, and reports scandals together with curious and humorous anecdotes, including what is certainly one of the earliest limericks.
At times "A Social History of Madness" risks becoming a string of curious anecdotes, for Mr. Porter makes his points in a gentle, even evasive way.
Burns's sister relates a curious anecdote connected with Alison.
A curious anecdote involving the Murphy drip is related by Walter Lord in his book on the Battle of Midway.
For a curious anecdote about the Darlington newspapers of 1954, one must read the history of Mundaring by Ken Spillman.
Following the development of the economy and the standard of living after independence, the night soil system in Singapore is now merely a curious anecdote from the time of colonial rule when new systems developed.
According to a curious anecdote, in 1618 he went to Paris to request grace, after he killed his treacherous wife and her lover.
In this same passage of Augustine's Confessions is a curious anecdote which bears on the history of reading:
A curious anecdote has come down to us of John Burns, a great English labor leader and one time member of the British Cabinet.