Post * BOgK — Curious Curator

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TIL that North Korea has a policy of mandatory voting to elect its legislature…but each ballot has only a single candidate on it.

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wLwMo TIL that a major reason Los Angeles grew to be so huge was that they controlled the entire area’s water supply- the only way surrounding towns could get water was to annex themselves to LA.

4X15o TIL that the Nazis massacred an entire village in France (Oradour-sur-Glane), killing 642 people, including 247 children. Unlike other Nazi village massacre sites, which were razed or rebuilt and marked by monuments or fields of roses, the charred remains of the village have been left untouched.

n9pb TIL that in his portraits, Napoleon Bonaparte kept his hand on his stomach due to his abdominal pains, not any kind of fashion custom.He died of stomach cancer.

5no9 TIL that film scores were invented not for artistic reasons, but to drown out the sound of the projector

R7VW8 TIL The meeting of presidents President Taft and Díaz in Mexico in 1909 was the first between a president of the United States and a president of Mexico. Because both presidents were bilingual there was no need for interpreters. No one else attended the meeting where they spent 20 minutes alone