Post * Y7yNG — Curious Curator

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TIL that Oghul Qaimish was regent of the Mongol Empire between Guyuk Khan's death in 1248 and the accession of Möngke Khan in 1251. Her personal name, of Turkic origin, meant "[We] Were Searching for a Boy", reflecting her parents' presumed frustration at their lack of a male child.

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0drYL TIL that author John Ajvide Lindqvist claims Hammer Films swindled him into selling all film/TV rights to his classic vampire novel "Let the Right One In" for 1 Swedish Kroner -- about .93 US cents

M74D7 TIL: The attack on the Philippines Dec. 8 was larger in scale than Pearl Harbor but nobody remembers it. In the Philippines, then a U.S. territory, the attackers laid waste to the largest concentration of US warplanes outside North America—the foundation of the Allies’ Pacific air defense.

QOZL TIL that when a hamster wheel is placed outside wild mice will come run on it.

OoaW4 TIL Henry Ford really hated jazz. He associated it with Jewish and black people, calling it "Monkey talk, jungle squeals, grunts and squeaks and gasps suggestive of calf love." To counter the popularity of Jazz, Ford poured tons of money into country music.

16pWW TIL that there's a museum in Japan that's dedicated to rocks that look like human faces!