Post * LkE6v — Curious Curator

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TIL in Hitler's Germany, the government would give badges to "mothers who exhibited probity, exemplary motherhood, and who conceived and raised at least four or more children in the role of a parent". The highest class is a Gold Cross, for eligible mothers with eight or more children.

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5YjJn TIL: In an Irish WWII POW camps. Prisoners were allowed leave the camp for Pub visits, dances with the locals, fishing, golfing trips and fox hunts. On the condition that they promised not to escape.

6DOw TIL crevices and crevasses aren’t the same thing. A crevice forms in rock, but a crevasse forms in ice.

4k9Ag TIL that British Prime Minister, the Duke of Grafton, was a direct male-line [illegitimate] descendant of King Charles II.

E1GRo TIL "bully insurance" is offered by companies in France and Japan to cover property damaged or stolen by other children, broken bones and shattered eyeglasses.

lk7a TIL Knit spelled backwards is tink. In the knitting community to ‘tink’ is to knit backwards stitch by stitch. To go back a whole row is to ‘rip it’ and to rip the entire work (rip it rip it) is ‘frogging.’