Post * bBd0 — Curious Curator

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TIL that there is a town in New York that voted to secede from the Union in 1861, and did not formally rejoin until 1945.

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ADwJl TIL Every Easter in the Czech Republic boys get willow branches, braid them together into whips and decorate them with ribbons to whip girls with for luck and fertility. The word for this whip in Czech is pomlázka, which has also become the name of the tradition itself.

N7gw8 TIL Bob Weinstein wanted Peter Jackson to cut out the Battle of Helm's deep, merge Gondor and Rohan into one kingdom, and make Éowyn Boromir's sister during the production of The Lord of the Rings movies.

7rQD7 TIL Monster sells canned water so entertainers/athletes don't guzzle sugar/caffeine all day.

Y7LKP TIL Ambergris – sometimes referred to as “whale vomit” - is a product of the sperm whale. 1.5kg is worth approximately $71,000

OoZw7 TIL BBC journalists requested an interview with Facebook because they weren't removing child abuse photos. Facebook asked to be sent the photos as proof. When journalists sent the photos, Facebook reported the them to the police because distributing child abuse imagery is illegal.