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TIL Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, upon seeing the terms given to Germany at Versailles, declared “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.”

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YL4A TIL Wes Craven was able to blacklist Santa Rosa High School a once popular film setting location, because days before the filming of Scream, the school board denied filming. In the credits for Scream, Craven includes, “And no thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board.”
16ogd TIL that Spain had a theocratic guardianship system akin to Saudi Arabia's until 1985, granting men near-total control over their wives and daughters. Women needed their guardian's consent to open a bank account, work, or drive, and men could legally kill their female partners for extramarital sex.
lB17 TIL only once has a submarine sunk another sub while both were underwater
GYJ4N TIL that 'figure skating' is named after a requirement that skaters draw figures in the ice, such as loops, figure-8s, and swirls, called "compulsory figures". Once making up the majority of a skater's score, figures were slowly reduced and eventually eliminated from competition entirely by 1990.
5YBdn TIL about the "hijacking" of the oil tanker, Brillante Virtuoso in the Gulf of Aden in 2011. There pirate attack left the ship heavily damaged and it was scrapped. The owner attempted a $100 mil insurance claim, one of the primary inspectors was killed in a car bomb, others were harassed.