Post * 6E7Pl — Curious Curator

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TIL Coco Chanel was a confirmed Nazi agent who went under the code name 'Westminster'. She spent most of WW2 in Paris in the Ritz, sleeping with Nazi officers and had direct contact to Himmler and Goebbels.

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4k1pX TIL the often-cited study that says that black babies cared for by white doctors died at a higher rate than those cared for by black doctors was a lie. Black babies with a higher chance of dying tended to be cared for by white doctors, which skewed the statistics

wGMP TIL the typical person in the bottom 5 percent of the American income distribution is still richer than 68 percent of the world’s inhabitants

gl77 TIL when, “The Founding of a Party”, a Chinese movie depicting the formation of the communist party was released, Transformers and Harry Potter were delayed to July, workers and students were given days off, and tickets were made free by local theatres so everyone had the chance to see it.

KOpo9 TIL The Battle of The Eclipse aka The Battle of Halys that took place in 585 BC which was halted due to a solar eclipse during the on-going fight. Both sides took this as a bad omen from their gods and sought to negotiate resulting in the ending of a 6 year long war between the two empires.

xKAD TIL That in some regions withing China farmers have to pollinate apple trees by hand. This is due to the lack of any bees, which is in turn due to mass extermination of “pests” carried out by Mao Zedong during the great leap forward. (more links in comments).