Post * gMBkA — Curious Curator

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TIL That young female macaques regularly mount male sika deer stags.

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J1X5k TIL when Jimmy Hendrix’s mom died (when Jimmy was 16) his dad did not allow him and his brother to go to the funeral, instead giving them shots of whiskey and telling them that was how men should deal with loss

rR17y TIL In 2012, Pitbull was involved in an advertising campaign with Walmart, in which the Walmart store that received the most Facebook "likes", would have Pitbull visit and put on a show there. An orchestrated campaign for him to end up in Kodiak, Alaska was successful.

8p94 TIL there was the Soviet equivalent to Eurovision called the Intervision Song Contest. Because of a lack of phones, viewers would turn lights on or off if they liked or didn’t like the song. According to load experienced on the electrical network, points were granted accordingly to each contestant.

wdy1 TIL Medieval Catholic doctrine held that cross-dressing should be evaluated based on context and that necessity would be a permissible reason for cross-dressing. (which made Joan d'Arc innocent)

Yp6aW TIL Kombat is regarded as one of the most iconic Soviet World War II photographs, yet neither the date nor the subject is known with certainty. According to the most widely accepted version, the photograph depicts Aleksei Yeryomenko's counterattack minutes before his death on 12 July 1942.