Post * JrB1 — Curious Curator

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TIL In 2000, amid rampant rumors that Pokemon was the work of the devil, the Pope gave his blessing to Pokemon calling it “full of inventive imagination” and that it did not have “any harmful moral side effects.”

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b9M8p TIL In 2005 researchers made a groundbreaking discovery of a novel gene that causes cancer when mutated and tried naming the gene Pokemon but were promptly threatened with a lawsuit by Pokemon USA because the company "did not want Pokemon associated with cancer"

OoX84 TIL mahaska was a 1920s slang for gun and the origin is unclear.

xVBn5 TIL the PHSCC and NOAACOC are members of the Uniformed Services of the US, but are not part of the US military.

GAkW4 TIL: The last official use of a Guillotine was in 1977

6EvGw TIL a former engineer in Japan claims to be the only heir to authentic ninjutsu. In his 60s, Jinichi Kawakami decided he will not appoint anyone as the next ninja grandmaster, saying: "we now have guns, the internet and much better medicines, so the art of ninjutsu has no place in the modern age."