Post * EgJ5X — Curious Curator

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TIL that Because English and British generals insisted The French unit that helped librate Paris would be all white, a white french unit had to be shipped in from Morocco, and was supplemented with volunteers from Spain and Portugal. Making it all white but not all French.

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W9dN TIL that the Troll offshore platform is the biggest structure ever to be moved by man. It is 1210 feet high (369m)

eXYn TIL The 52-Hertz whale a.k.a. “The World’s Loneliest Whale” has a call that is much higher pitched than that of other whale species. It appears to be the only individual whale emitting a call at this frequency. It has been detected regularly in many locations since the 1980’s.

Ggl1 TIL that on midnight before Easter Sunday, two rival church congregations in Greece perform a “Rocket War” by firing tens of thousands of home-made rockets across town, with the objective of hitting the bell tower of the church of the other side.

j6oMR TIL: Vietnam has a few unique monsters, one is the Ma Vú Dài, a lady ghost with long breasts that attacks victims at night to forcefully breastfeed them until they fall unconscious. In the 60s, prisoners in Saigon reported seeing a women with long breasts force feeding cellmates.

epBd4 TIL many kingdoms and empires hired court dwarves. Their responsibilities included standing next to the king to make him look taller, and providing entertainment by being small. Confucius was said to have executed many of them after winning a debate.