Post * WrmL — Curious Curator

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TIL A group of writers purposely wrote a terrible novel full of nothing but sex scenes to prove how vulgar American literary culture had become. It became a bestseller.

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oBN9K TIL when Hiroshima was bombed, Tokyo's first indication that Hiroshima was destroyed by a new kind of bomb came 16 hours after the strike and originally thought reports of an explosion was just a rumour.

ANx0n TIL at Germany’s Klaasohm festival on Borkum Island, masked men traditionally chased women and beat them with a cow horn, a ritual linked to whaling history. After public outrage and political intervention, the practice was abolished.

D1mlj TIL that beer was banned in Iceland until March 1, 1989, which is now celebrated annually as Beer Day. Iceland outlawed all forms of alcohol in 1915, but within 20 years had unbanned all alcoholic beverages except for beer.

dDEBE TIL according to National Parks Authority data, Grand Canyon National Park had the most search and rescue (SAR) incidents between 2018-2020 with 785. And Mount Rainier National Park has the most open SAR incidents with 101, followed by Blue Ridge Parkway's 28.

QJw5p TIL that Brisbane was originally founded as a penal colony for convicts who comitted new offences after they had arrived in Australia.