Post * 8aRpG — Curious Curator

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TIL there once was a guild in Germany that entirely controlled the production of gingerbread.

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gr647 TIL about the Vectrex, a video game console released in November 1982 in North America that came with its own 9 inch monochrome CRT monitor, detachable wired controller, had vector-based graphics, and games for it came with translucent colorful overlays for the screen. The initial price was $199.

4Xj7b TIL of Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish soldier shipwrecked in Mexico and taken captive by local Maya. By the time Cortés arrived, he had become a Maya war captain, was married to his Lord's daughter, and fathered the first Mestizo children. He led local Maya resistance until his death in 1532.

oRZR8 TIL that a woman living in California in the 1940s housed thousands of spiders in her home to harvest and sell their silk to the US military for bomb sites during WW2. The government's couriers would arrive to pick up the silk with empty briefcases handcuffed to their wrists.

nero TIL That the man who blew the whistle on alleged widespread phone hacking perpetrated by Murdoch’s “The News of the World” only chose to do so after being diagnosed with terminal liver disease. His death was accurately determined to be completely natural and not suspicious at all.

VBpa0 TIL although the Sovereign Military Order of Malta has no territory, it is often considered a sovereign entity of international law, issuing passports, money and postal stamps