Post * pYxQZ — Curious Curator

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TIL In 2008, a riot occurred during a football/soccer match in Democratic Republic of the Congo after one player was accused of using witchcraft.

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woyOJ TIL about William Adams, an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan. He also became one of the first known Western samurai and a key advisor to the shōgun, and one of the first Englishmen to travel to Thailand and Vietnam.

QNZV9 TIL about Marina Abramović, a Serbian performance artist who, in 1974, created an art piece called Rhythm 0. In this piece, she placed 72 objects on a table that ranged from a feather, scissors and a gun with a single bullet. She then allowed the audience to do whatever they wanted for 6 hours.

5OOk TIL - An apparently mentally ill Roman Catholic priest has regularly interrupted sporting events by running onto the track with signs about the impending apocalypse. He may have cost a Brazilian runner his Olympic Gold Medal. He was finally defrocked in 2005.

nr4d TIL there is a tribe called the Sentinelese who live on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. For thousands of years they have refused all contact with the outside world. Using only stones and arrows, they have successfully repelled Arabs, Persians, Indians, Europeans, and a fucking helicopter.

gMe49 TIL that in the 1950s a man said to his lover that no woman could write erotica like the Marquis de Sade. In response, Anne Desclos wrote a novel that was so obscene that the French authorities tried to take the publisher to court, and Desclos kept her name secret for forty years.