Post * VM4l4 — Curious Curator

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TIL In 2005, 60 years after the end of World War 2 and Korea's Independence, South Korea passed a law to seize land held by Pro-Japan collaborators and redistribute them to people who fought for the country's Independence.

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kJByd TIL the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or near complete drying-up from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, when the precursor of the Strait of Gibraltar closed off sealing the Sea off from the Atlantic Ocean. The period ended with a flood when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin.

9YdLp TIL of Pēteris Lapainis. A soldier who served in Russian imperial army, Soviet armed forces, Latvian army and German military. He fought in both world wars and received multiple high-ranking awards from each army he served. After second world war he spent 20 years in Soviet captivity.

Z5R4 TIL there was a British TV show called “Sex Box”, where couples went into a box on stage in front of a studio audience, and had sex. And then came out and talked about the sex they just had with a panel of sexperts, including Dan Savage.

xVXGD TIL separate bathrooms for women emerged only in the late 1800s, under the assumption that women were inherently weaker and therefore needed protective, home-like havens in their workplace.

pY6pG TIL that James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty on Star Trek, came up with the sound and tone of the Klingon Language for Star Trek The Motion Picture. A linguist, Marc Okrand, later used those lines created by Doohan to turn it into an actual language.