Post * wlnW — Curious Curator

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TIL that the Philippines has a rebel Islamic group named MILF.

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a81Bo TIL the first words ever spoken in a feature film were, “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” — delivered by Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer (1927).

ZpKaa TIL about the Cotswold Olimpick Games, an annual public celebration of games and sports held in the Cotswolds of England. Events included horse-racing, coursing with hounds, running, jumping, dancing, sledgehammer throwing, fighting with swords and cudgels, quarterstaff, shin-kicking, and wrestling

GYyL4 TIL That, during the War of the Currents, Thomas Edison became so desperate to convince people that Tesla's current was more harmful than his own, that he began paying young boys 25 cents per stray dog they brought him, so he could publicly electrocute them with Tesla's current to prove his point.

W7xWY TIL Roughly 95% of Scottish single malt whisky is made in former bourbon barrels. American laws require bourbon barrels only be used once so they are cheap and plentiful for reuse elsewhere. The barrels often add vanilla, caramel, or nutty aromas.

nW9Kb TIL that there is no land at the North Pole - just ice. The North Pole is located in the frozen Arctic Ocean. In contrast, the South Pole is located on a massive land mass - a continent. I am 69 - and have always assumed that the North and South Poles are alike.