Post * d8rwQ — Curious Curator

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TIL: Native Americans created a universal sign language that allowed 2/3 of all Indigenous tribes to communicate across most of North America, hundreds of years before Europeans invented a sign language of their own.

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7rnO7 TIL measuring tapes have many hidden features, such as a scribe.

wyKJ TIL bestiality porn is legal to own in all 50 states, legal to film in 44, and legal to perform in 12.

D1BNj TIL that a Somali pirate fell into a "movie trap" in Brussels. Thinking that he would work on a documentary, he was instead arrested as soon as he disembarked from his flight.

rRwn4 TIL In feudal England, the legal official overseeing a shire was referred to as a reeve. Even though America eventually opted to use the word county instead of shire, the title of the legal official remains today: Shire Reeve... Sheriff.

d8Jl8 TIL that Thomas Edison produced a film called Fred Ott’s Sneeze, a 5 second film where Fred Ott, one of Edison’s assistants, sneezes. It is the oldest surviving film with a copyright.