Post * 5VQEP — Curious Curator

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TIL that Fort Douaumont, the largest and most important fort in the French defense system during World War I, fell to a force of 98 Germans in 3 days in February 1916. It took the French army 302 days, and an estimated 337,000 casualties to retake it.

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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.

o9ZW TIL the “strangest” battle of WWII refers to the Battle for Castle Itter the only battle in the war in which Americans and Germans fought as allies.

1a1G8 TIL the anime clips in Malcom in the middle were from an anime called "Jikku Tenshou Nazca"

ZA1D TIL that skin bleach is used for scars and not just buttholes

OO6X TIL: the nazis intentionally flooded a region and introduced malaria carrying mosquitoes to stop the Allied advance. It didn’t kill any allied forced, but did kill 50k Italians.