Post * xewB — Curious Curator

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TIL that mining corporate-hired “agents drove a heavily armored train through a tent colony at night, opening fire on women, men and children with a machine gun”(1912) to prevent unionization in the buildup to the 2nd largest insurrection in the US since the Civil War.

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gr068 TIL that 50% of Roger Federer's name is "er"

LQbJv TIL Nazi Germany, Francoist Spain, and the Soviet Union repressed Esperanto usage. The Nazis banned it because its creator was a Jew. Spain repressed it because Catalan nationalists used it heavily. Stalin banned it because the Association of Soviet Esperantists was thought to be a spy organization.

WkwYo TIL A penguin species that lived around 37m years ago was nearly 7 foot tall

Lald TIL by the age of 13, legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, won the weekly amateur contest at the Apollo Theater so many times that he was eventually barred from entering.

pYooN TIL there's a difference between button-down and a button-up shirts. A button-down shirt has small buttons on the collar to keep it in place, while a button-up shirt has no collar buttons. Button-down shirts are more casual (for example in the choice of fabric) and button-up shirts are more formal.