Post * X04Nj — Curious Curator

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TIL during the Civil War, the Confederates used Bermuda as a commerce center to get around the Union blockade.

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ADgR4 TIL That a 19-Year-old student hid a spy camera in his clothing to take secret street photos in the 1890s, taking pictures of people in a natural state, rather than in the strict posing trends that dominated in photography during those years.

Yp9Qx TIL up until 2004 it was illegal to have a divorce in Chile

OojnY TIL of The American Service-Members' Protection Act, AKA "The Hague Invasion Act"

ne6lB TIL High heels were originally worn by men. Wealthy 17th-century men in Europe wore them to imply their upper-class status; only someone who did not have to work could afford, both financially and practically, to wear such extravagant shoes.

0d44A TIL that the Beastie Boys coined the term "mullet"