Post * BZnd — Curious Curator

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TIL the word ‘sahara’ means 'desert’ in Arabic, so the Sahara Desert is the 'desert desert’.

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dwr8 TIL selling a birthday cake with a depiction of a copyrighted character such as Mickey Mouse is punishable with up to a $100,000 fine. Law firms have sent agents disguised as moms and dads to bakeries to purchase ‘illegal’ cakes and subsequently sue.

9nNp TIL that Under Armour, an American company, uses a non-American spelling of “armour” (with a “u”) not because it has ties to somewhere like the UK or Canada but because the founder was “trying to get a cool toll-free phone number.”

oRv1R TIL of Sonya Thomas, a competitive eater. In 2005, she held 22 world titles at a bodyweight of 99 lbs. and defeated elite male and female competitors twice her size or more.

OoB14 TIL Gerald Blanchard, a sophisticated criminal mastermind, was facing a sentence of 164 years but reduced it to 8 by revealing where he kept the Star of Empress Sisi, a priceless ornament worn by Elisabeth of Bavaria which he stole a decade before from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria

bE0Q TIL Aborigines were chained by the neck and force fed salt to help explorers find waterholes in arid Western Australia