Post * x6jDw — Curious Curator

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TIL the difference between “Whisky” which refers to Scottish, Canadian and Japanese grain spirits and “Whiskey” which refers to Irish and American grain spirits.

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KDV4 TIL that suburban neighborhoods were made to prevent people of being Communists. William Levitt, father of modern American suburbia declared: “No one who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.”

pYwQ4 TIL Karl Marx had four daughters, all of whom were named Jenny after their mother, Jenny von Westphalen.

0wZE1 TIL Impalement (Execution by a slowly sliding down a pole inserted through the rectum or vagina over the course of days) was used as recently as the Armenian Genocide (~1915) by The Young Turks

p5XZ TIL that in 2013, Google bought the GPS app “Waze” which resulted in each of the 100 employees receiving an average of $1.2 million.

6Zbm TIL that “old-person smell’ is a real thing — Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia confirmed that elderly people really do have a distinct scent, so recognizable in fact that people can identify them by body odor alone.