Post * 9YjmQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that people of the Yanomami tribe do not generally address eachother by their names. It is considered an insult to call a man by his name by his public - in fact, the Yanomami verb "to name" is a synonym of "to insult".

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6o6X TIL Freddy Kruegur’s Sweater Colors Green and Red Were Chosen After Reading An Article In The Scientific American That Said Green and Red Are Naturally Unsettling To The Eye

ReMl TIL of Bill Macumber legal case who was accused of murdering of 2 people. But another man confessed the crime to his lawyer - before dying in a fight. Because of attorney-client privilege, the lawyer’s testimony was not presented, and Bill Macumber went to jail for 37 years.

b6mlN TIL when she was 10 years old, the Vatican dispatched an investigator to determine if Shirley Temple was actually a middle-aged dwarf. After her film career, she was a U.S. diplomat to two countries, and became the first female Chief of Protocol of the United States.

R5dKj TIL that Boston Corbett (soldier who killed John Booth) castrated himself with a pair of scissors to avoid temptation upon seeing prostitutes

8aKjG TIL: During the 2014 Sochii Olympics in Russia, Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak—responding to complaints about facilities—claimed the problems were due to sabotage and their surveillance video of people's behavior in hotel showers proved it.