Post * QrwM — Curious Curator

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TIL that after having the re-run episode of their Scientology episode of South Park “Trapped in the Closet” pulled from the air, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were quoted as saying, “So, Scientology, you may have won this battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun.”

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QJrVX TIL Aladdin was actually a Chinese tale, and the Arabian Nights weren't exclusively in Arabia.

8e17P TIL: Margot Frank, the sister of Anne, also kept a diary but it is presumed to be lost

M7oP7 TIL prevailing local lore credits the Shaka to Hamana Kalili who lost the three middle fingers of his right hand while working at a sugar mill. Kalili was then shifted to guarding the sugar train, and his all-clear wave is said to have evolved into the shaka as children imitated the gesture.

Merpm TIL August von Mackensen was a World War I Field Marshal who lived from 1849 to late 1945, which means he lived through the Kingdom of Prussia, North German Confederation, German Empire, Weimar Republic, Third Reich and the Allied Occupation of Germany.

8baL TIL Of the Amber Room which was a world-famous chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors. At one point considered the eighth wonder of the world the entire room went missing during WW2.