Post * DG1P — Curious Curator

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TIL Henry Ford was an honorary Nazi and his first company later became Cadillac

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DQx6g TIL the African Union headquarters built in Ethiopia in 2012 were entirely funded by the Chinese government, who reportedly spied on the building for 5 years via hidden microphones and an IT system that sent files to Shanghai daily.

d8Q8Z TIL that Love Stinks from The Wedding Singer was a cover of an actual 80s song

Yp7bv TIL that John Cleese once defaced his school's grounds "as a prank, by painting footprints to suggest that the statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the toilet"

RDkl TIL that Cinderella’s slippers were not actually made of glass. A translation mistake from the original french version to english translated “vair” (fur) to “verre” (glass), which in french are pronounced exactly the same.

Wk4Q4 TIL about a population of Greater Rheas (Nandus) that established itself in Northern Germany after 7 birds escaped a farm in 2000. As of 2018 their number has reached as many as 566