Post * 6EAmX — Curious Curator

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TIL a World War 2 German interrogator’s work is one of the most famous examples showing torture does not work. His method yielded an extremely high success rate and was based on kindness, empathy, and hospitality

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W67d TIL A man from Indonesia left his 9 dogs unfed for 2 weeks during a vacation and when he returned home his starving dogs attacked and ate him.

loxRA TIL about Charlotte Woodward Pierce, who attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention (in favor of women's rights) as a teenager and was its only attendant to live long enough to see women get the right to vote in 1920. She was 91 then and her failing health prevented her from voting that year.

nePW7 TIL that many blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries have little transparent worms in them, that eventually turn into fruit flies unless you eat them first. Known as "Drosophila suzukii", this particular species first appeared in the United States in 2008. They are safe to eat.

WkL0A TIL of Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos and Mayor Karres, who, when ordered to list and turn in the entire Jewish population of Zakynthos, Greece, promptly hid them in various rural islands and turned in a list containing only their own names. The entire Jewish population survived.

v1kJr TIL Belarus has one of the most grandiose defense museums in Eastern Europe, the Stalin Line Historical and Cultural Complex, named after the original Stalin Line, a network of fortifications along the Western border of the former Soviet Union