Post * R7KB9 — Curious Curator

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TIL that instead of portraits, rich Filipinos during the 1800s commissioned artists to creatively form letters of their patron's name into different human figures, animals, plants, and other objects.

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epwjE TIL of the La Garita Caldera. A super volcano that had an eruption 5,000 times more energetic than the explosion of the largest bomb ever created by humans, the Tsar Bomba.

rRbYx TIL a "bottle episode" in TV, in which characters sit around and talk for an entire episode, was created to save money and/or time, as in "we pulled that episode out of a bottle like a genie." Today it is revered, and shows like Seinfeld, Friends and Always Sunny have turned it into an art

W7g8 TIL that George C. Parker, a con man, would sell the Brooklyn Bridge twice a week to tourists; the buyers would sometimes try to put up toll barriers.

QNEvE TIL The Page Act of 1875 barred entry of Asian immigrants suspected of entering the US involuntarily or for sex work. In practice, the law targeted Chinese women by appealing to a common stereotype that they were prostitutes and dangerous to the institution of marriage.

6986Q TIL one of Canadian Club whiskey's most important clients during US Prohibition was Al Capone who smuggled thousands of cases from a route from Windsor to Detroit.