Post * WdgL — Curious Curator

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TIL that every single spy that Hitler thought he had in Britain was a double agent under British control.

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YojA TIL because of his interest in Egyptology and difficult fitting in with his French family, Christian Louboutin invented an elaborate fantasy in which he’d been adopted from Egypt. Years later, he learned that his biological father was, in fact, Egyptian.

X09Y8 TIL that Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon, loved to collect bugs as a child. Other children would call him “Mr. Bug,” and as a child he wanted to become an entomologist. This childhood pastime went on to inspire aspects of Pokémon.

R5499 TIL that over a thousand pages of information was made possible by this woman & many others that allowed N.A.S.A. get to the moon.

g5R7 TIL Until the late 1400s the word ‘girl’ just meant a child of either sex. If you had to differentiate between them, male children were referred to as 'knave girls’ and females were 'gay girls’. Equally, a boy could be called a 'knave child’ and a girl a 'maiden child’.

9wXX TIL that not only is Shirley Temple still alive, she has also been ambassador to Czechoslovakia & Ghana, survived breast cancer, served on the board of directors of Bank of America and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives.