Post * NXPPP — Curious Curator

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TIL of Gacek the Cat, a chunky tuxedo cat who happens to be the highest rated tourist attraction in the town of Szczecin. Tourists from all around the world come to feed him snacks

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Y7Zyd TIL In Finland, cab drivers are required by law to pay royalty fees for songs played on their taxi radio while working & conveying paying passengers. The reason being, cabbies use music for commerce while making a profit. A fixed sum is to be paid to the Finnish Composers' Copyright Society annually

8eml4 TIL the first recorded use of the phrase "any port in a storm" was the 1749 erotic novel "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure."

0Qpv TIL of Butler’s café , a butler themed cafe in Tokyo. According to the owner, Japanese women “want a cafe where the waiters [are] male, good-looking, will treat them nice, but most importantly [are] Western.” Butler’s café “is the sole cafe hiring only foreign men as staff.”

8aPRX TIL that Steve Irwin was an "autodidact", meaning he was self-taught. He never went to college, and learned everything about zoology/biology by teaching himself and learning from his father.

loAYA TIL about singer and pioneer sound recording artist George W. Johnson, born in 1846, who sold more than 25.000 wax cylinders. Since every recording was a "master" back then, he would record the same song over and over with several recording devices pointed at him, sometimes fifty or more times a day