Post * xMZ5 — Curious Curator

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TIL that in Feudal Japan, there was an untouchable caste comprised of “impure” professions such as executioners, undertakers, workers in slaughterhouses, butchers or tanners. 400 years later, descendants of this caste may still face discrimination.

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QjbX TIL in 2003, a website called Scroogle was created by Google critic Daniel Brandt, to allow users to search Google anonymously. It stayed active until 2012, where it was shut down by Brandt due to a combination of throttling of search requests by Google and a DDoS attack.

b6LK7 TIL in 2010, after 90 years of publication, Canadian magazine "The Beaver" changed its name to "Canada's History" because the modern slang definition for "beaver" resulted in their promotional emails being sent to the spam folder.

wGgP TIL that the dog who played Eddie on Frasier was replaced by his own son in Season 9.

PYbVL TIL in 2016 researchers at University of Southampton invented glass chips etched with nanostructures that can be used to store up to 360 terabytes of data for billions of years

9wdeX TIL the United States travel advisory for Americans going to Somalia include: “have a designated family member for hostage negotiations” and "draft a will."