Post * dDypE — Curious Curator

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TIL the first battle fought by Italian troops since WW2 is so named for a adjacent Barilla pasta factory nearby

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VbgQ TIL that rubber, despite its many uses now, was called “rubber” because it rubs out pencil marks.

R7Jdl TIL: in the 1960s a boy smuggled in three giant African snails into Florida, and later released them. Within seven years there were an estimated 18,000 of the creatures in the wild, taking 10 years and over $1M to eradicate.

PAXL TIL that since Costa Rica was not at the Treaty of Versailles, they have been at war with Germany since WWI, and are technically still at war.

VdK0 TIL that “o'clock” is a contraction of “stroke of the clock” and comes from 15th century references to medieval mechanical clocks

b6BLZ TIL about Rie Fujii, a Japanese woman who abandoned her two young children (ages 15 months and 3 months) for 10 days in an apartment in Calgary so she spend time with her boyfriend.