Post * e0g84 — Curious Curator

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TIL the Chicago Sun-Times bought and and ran a bar to show and uncover corruption.

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kdO1 TIL a sign language interpreter in the Ukraine courageously defied state censors in 2004 by signing to her deaf viewers the true winner of the presidential election.

dDKyd TIL there's an Irish Pub at base camp Mt. Everest that's dubbed the "highest and most remote Irish pub in the world"

Xvok TIL the mongols tried invading Japan twice with massive naval fleets and on both occasions were devastated by a typhoon

d8KvK TIL That cats were demonized in Europe during the Middle Ages. Many were killed off in an attempt to ward off evil, an action which ironically helped spread the plague.

PKOJ TIL in 1960, the computer at NORAD warned with 99.9% certainty that the Soviets had just launched a full-scale missile attack against North America. NORAD later discovered that the Early Warning System in Greenland had interpreted the moon rising over Norway as a missile attack from Siberia.