Post * VMWLG — Curious Curator

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TIL that the roman salute is unknown in Roman literature and is never mentioned by ancient historians of Rome

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YpNkx TIL Vitali Kaloyev, a Russian Architect who lost his family when the airliner they were flying in collided mid air with a cargo plane. He stalked and later murdered an air traffic controller he blamed for the incident.

8eL1P TIL when Nirvana's opening band, Calamity Jane, got booed off stage at a concert in Buenos Aires, Nirvana decided to teach the crowd a lesson. So before every song of their set, they'd play the intro to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" & then just stop before continuing on to play an obscure song of theirs

OoBA1 TIL that when Syphilis first surfaced, the English called it the ‘French disease’, the French called it the ‘Spanish disease’, Germans called it the French evil, Russians called it Polish disease, Poles called it Turkish disease, Turks called it Christian disease & Japan called it 'Chinese pox'

d8yVr TIL the rhinoceros iguana (Cyclura cornuta) is a threatened species of lizard primarily found on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola shared by the Republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Its name derives from the bony plated pseudo-horn on its head which resembles the horn of a rhinoceros.

16Z77 TIL that in 1982, to protest Border Patrol inspections that were harming tourism, the city of Key West, FL declared independence. The mayor named himself Prime Minister of the Conch Republic, declared war on the US, surrendered one minute later, then applied for one billion dollars in foreign aid.