Post * xVQO0 — Curious Curator

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TIL about a restaurant which gives complementary reptiles with food.

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b9NLQ TIL about Nutraloaf, a meat loaf found in prisons that is so bland that a court ruled that serving it to misbehaving prisoners is a "cruel and unsual punishment"

KVZw TIL that in the USSR there was group call the League of Militant Atheist who spread atheist propaganda, destroyed churches and helped their government detain and kill religious individuals in Russia.

JYbn4 TIL of the Battle of Empel, deemed a miracle in its time: stranded Spanish troops were surrounded by a Dutch fleet. After finding a painting representing Virgin Mary while digging trenches by a church, the river rapidly froze that night, allowing the Spanish to attack the Dutch and burn their ships.

epWkL TIL the International Phonetic Association, the organization who developed the International Phonetic Alphabet, was originally called 'Dhi Fonètik Tîtcerz' Asóciécon'

QJJE TIL only 12% of the World’s population lives below the equator