Post * kOxXE — Curious Curator

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TIL about Vincent Kosuga, an American Onion farmer that made so much money from trading Onion futures, the United States passed the "Onion Futures Act'' banning the practice of trading Onion futures.

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R7jDa TIL that Grover Cleveland was a sheriff for three years, during which time he personally hanged two men

X0jD TIL that during his reign, Pope John Paul II apologized for the conquest of Mesoamerica, the complicity in the African slave trade, the silence of Catholics during the Holocaust, and the trial of Galileo.

b9LDN TIL: Zoot Suit Riots were a series of anti-Mexican youth riots in Los Angeles that happened in 1943. The suits worn were seen as unpatriotic because of the amount of fabric used, and later became prohibited during the Second World War because of their wastefulness of cloth.

GRQG TIL that the vulture population in Gettysburg grew significantly after the civil war battle and the vultures that remain there are descendants of the ones that fed on soldiers.

e014g TIL the letters on hillsides were started by rivalries between High Schools and Universities as a way to mark their territory. The first three ‘mountain monograms’ were erected at Lahainaluna High, UC Berkeley, and BYU. They spread like wildfire in the Western US in the 20s and 30s.