Post * d8gLB — Curious Curator

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TIL There’s a Japanese Western Movie With a Mexican Theme, Filmed in Mexico

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Zp4Ga TIL controversy was created in 2011 when a Spanish toy company exported the Breast Milk Baby Doll to the US. The doll, intended to teach girls nurturing skills, came with a halter top which had two sensors that girls would wear to imitate the act of breastfeeding the doll. Some parents were outraged

QJGnM TIL of El Mahrousa, the official presidential Super-Yacht of Egypt. It was built in 1863 by English engineers, it's the oldest yet still the 9th largest Yacht in the world. It has carried three Egyptian leaders into exile, ended a dynasty, and carried the Egyptian delegation to the 1979 peace talks

YpwwA TIL that in 1969 a representative of the Soviet government contacted an American diplomat in Washington to ask how the US would feel if the Soviets were to attack and destroy China's nuclear installations. The American at first thought this was meant as a joke.

yVjQX Today I learned that Thomas Edison was prompted to conduct experiments on animals after SPCA founder Henry Bergh, Jr., contacted him to ask whether electrocution might provide a humane way of killing unwanted animals.

6PVl TIL that 3 black kids formed a protopunk band called DEATH, in 1971, whose music is only now being discovered.