Post * MexRK — Curious Curator

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TIL Rome's sewers and forums are older than the Roman Republic.

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N7po1 TIL United Feature Syndicate responded positively to a comic strip featuring a side character with a stuffed animal. They asked the creator to develop a strip around these characters but ultimately rejected it for lacking in marketing potential. The strip was Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson.

5VoGk TIL That a group of Carmelite monks in Wyoming are building themselves a gothic monastery using 3D design software and stone-carving robots

nWpZY TIL during the Pacific War, American soldiers comitted war crimes by killing surrendering Japanese soldiers and massacring POWs. in 1943, a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese.

d8mlQ TIL "A fake U.S. Embassy operated in Ghana for about a decade, issuing false visas and other documents until it was discovered in 2016."

WQV9 TIL that Hitler justified his campaign of ethnic extermination and relocation in Eastern Europe and the USSR in part on the U.S. government’s treatment of Native Americans in the 19th Century.