Post * VMJDp — Curious Curator

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TIL of Republican Congress member Thaddeus Steven who wanted to exile former slave owners and redistribute their land among slaves and farmers

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Brp5r TIL the eggs in Alien initially had a more vaginal appearance complete with an "inner and outer vulva". Producers worried that Catholic countries would ban the film, so Giger changed them so that "seen from above, they would form the cross that people in Catholic countries are so fond of looking at"

4XM0N TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General was forced to resign because she said she wasn't opposed to teaching students about masturbation in sex education, and religious conservatives were outraged

j6kbp TIL a cockroach named "Nadezhda" became the first terrestrial animal to give birth in space aboard the Russian Foton-M bio-satellite

GANyE TIL that Fuji apples are not named after Mount Fuji, rather they are named after the town of Fujisaki in Aomori prefecture, at the northern tip of Honshu Island. The Fuji in Fujisaki means "wisteria".

gMDRy TIL about Robert Kahn, a Jew who was forced to play his violin for Nazis while they held his parents and ransacked his home in 1938. Later, he hid the violin. He fled the Nazis, served in the US Army in WW2 and, years later, retrieved the violin from hiding, but never played it again.