Post * awbYN — Curious Curator

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TIL Community’s Magnitude (“Pop, Pop!”) is Hogwart’s student Lee Jordan in the Harry Potter film series

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5Ym1n TIL That the Czech language was saved from extinction by puppet shows. In the 17th century, the Catholic Ferdinand II forced the Protestant Czech people to speak in German and banned the Czech language. Puppets were the only remaining entities that had the right to speak Czech in public places.

aQYb TIL only 11% of kamikaze pilots hit their targets.

nGnG TIL there has not been a cat species extinction in 10,000 years.

7rlPr TIL that a man named Paul Brown invented the upside-down squeeze bottle in 1991. He sold his product to everyone from shampoo companies to ketchup companies to NASA, and then four years later he sold his company for $13 million.

GY4JE TIL that on the side of Prussia in the Napoleonic War a woman named Friederike Krüger served disguised as a soldier and after the discovery of her gender was not only NOT thrown out of the army, but was allowed to continue fighting and was even promoted several times.