Post * 9w8gM — Curious Curator

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TIL that a "PAP" smear is not an acronym but refers to the doctor who pioneered the procedure.

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6d8W TIL after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated, homosexuals still weren’t considered victims and were explicitly excluded from reparations.

9wpEr TIL: That in 1942 Julia Child, a well-known celebrity chef, was hired by the OSS which later became the CIA.

epZ76 TIL the U.S. military uses bees to find landmines

1rV TIL ITT Corporation backed coups with the CIA in Brazil and Chile to keep their phone companies from being nationalized by the governments in power.

7wxM TIL Compton has its own Cricket club, who have met Prince Edward and played a game of cricket against the staff at Windsor Castle.