Post * xVaRb — Curious Curator

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TIL Volkswagen used slave labor from Nazi concentration camps to produce their cars during the war.

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GKyJ TIL Brazil and France seriously considered going to war on whether lobsters swam or crawled

Wv0N TIL that in ancient China, an emperor’s last line of defense was a small Pekingese dog literally hidden up his sleeve, that would viciously attack on command.

KOBo4 TIL that Frank Carney, co-founder of Pizza Hut, was a franchisee of Papa Johns Pizza and owned 133 of their locations.

xOm1 TIL archaeologists had found a ring inside a 9th century Viking grave that is inscribed with the phrase ‘for Allah’.

v1KG8 TIL that Scientists Genetically Engineered Flies to Ejaculate Under Red Light. Their experiments confirm that sex is pleasurable, even for animals we think of as simple.