Post * ARL4 — Curious Curator

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TIL of Maximilian Kolbe, a priest in Auschwitz who volunteered to die in the place of a stranger who cried out “My wife! My children!”. In the gas chamber, he kept all the others sentenced to death calm and was the last one to die.

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kOW1d TIL that the Wizengamot in Harry Potter is inspired by the Anglo-Saxon Witenagemot (=meeting of wise men)

8ajBX TIL that when Medieval monks would fast for religious reasons they would sometimes drink lots of beer instead of eating food, since drinking did not count as "food".

JYbX8 TIL: People in Michigan's upper peninsula speak a unique dialect of English, sometimes colloquially reffered to as "Yoopanese"

nevOB TIL L. Ron. Hubbard’s own son, L. Ron Hubbard Jr. was highly critical of Scientology and claimed black magic was the inner core of Scientology once stating, "my father did not worship Satan. He thought he was Satan."

oBa9W TIL performance artist Tehching Hsieh spent an entire year punching a time clock every hour on the hour, then photographing himself immediately after. He shaved his head before starting, so his hair growth would reflect the passage of time.