Post * Ypgvv — Curious Curator

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TIL of Master Sergeant Roddie Edwards, the ranking US officer at a Nazi POW camp. When Nazis told him to assemble his Jewish soldiers, he instead assembled all of his soldiers and told the German commandant that "we are all Jews here." He saved up to 200 Jewish soldiers.

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nWoJG TIL that in 1974, filmmaker Bob Clark directed a horror film, "Black Christmas," about a deranged killer who murdered girls on a sorority campus during the Christmas season. 9 years later in 1983, Clark once again directed a Christmas film, this time a family-comedy, titled "A Christmas Story."

kO577 TIL the Church of Scientology is classified a ‘vexatious litigant’ having abused the federal court system by using it to destroy their opponents, rather than resolve an actual dispute. Central California’s US District Court has never seen a more glaring example of bad faith litigation.

7nBP TIL Twofold Bay whalers had an agreement with a local pod of orcas known as “The Law of the Tongue”. The orcas would herd whales towards shore and block off their escape, allowing whalers to harpoon them. The tongues of the captured whales would then be cut out and thrown to the orcas as tribute.

PlVG TIL The KEO Time Capsule, which will be launched in 2014, will re-enter Earths Atmosphere 50,000 years from now. The cool thing is that everyones invited to submit their own 4 page letter.

NXbvN TIL in 1915, a farmer watched his sister make mascara with coal and petroleum jelly and decided he could improve upon the product. He invented a new formula that doesn't cause eye irritation. He named the new company Maybelline after his sister Maybel and the base ingredient Vaseline...