Post * kY0E — Curious Curator

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TIL Hugo Boss was not only a supplier of uniforms to the Nazis, but was the designer of the black uniforms worn by the SS

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yQ14l TIL no human has beaten a computer in a chess tournament in over 15 years

KOPOa TIL that 8 million years ago, there existed giant rodents somewhere between the size of a moose and a bison. The Phoberomys pattersoni was a relative of the modern guinea pig and looked like a massive capybara with a long tail.

nxob TIL that birds won’t abandon their nestlings if they smell like humans

5YDrD TIL The Macarena is a song about a woman cheating on her boyfriend with his two friends while he's being drafted into the military.

epOEL TIL that Although they are languages from different cultures, Icelandic (spoken in Iceland) and Bengali (spoken in Bangladesh and India) are part of the same family (Indo-European).