Post * R7j4j — Curious Curator

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TIL of this Turkish language which is not spoken but whistled, this language is used by villagers living in the mountains and the high pitch of the whistle allows them to communicate across long distances

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yVOKV TIL that when Dracula (1897) came out, many “regarded it as excessively frightening”.

Y7DBB TIL that in 1966, a boy unknowingly caused an ecological crisis by smuggling and releasing three Giant African Land Snails in Miami, leading to a costly, $1 million, decade-long eradication campaign.

mKnY TIL when American troops were asking ‘American’ trivial questions to flush out German infiltrators in WWII, that American brigadier general Bruce Clarke was held at gunpoint for five hours after he said the Chicago Cubs were in the American League

V1vm TIL that a wife who murdered her husband for playing poorly in a bridge game was found not guilty, traveled the world, became a millionaire, and ended up leaving the majority of her estate to her murdered husband’s relatives over 60 years later.