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JYR6k
TIL one of the selling points for introducing the guillotine during the French Revolution was equality - commoners could now enjoy the comparatively quick and painless death of decapitation just like the nobility, and would no longer have to endure brutal deaths such as those caused by hanging.
8aXV4
TIL that Crocodile Dundee was inspired by Ron Ansell, an Australian buffalo hunter & crocodile poacher. He sued Paul Hogan for profits of the films, but lost & was bitter about it for the rest of his life. He was killed in a police shootout on 8/3/99.
QJ5o6
TIL of Sidney Lewis who joined the British Army at age 12, fought in the Battle of the Somme at age 13 but was sent home when his mother complained. He reenlisted without her knowledge, fought in Austria in 1918, and went on to fight in WWII, too, before retiring to run a pub.
KONLw
TIL that Canada's post-WWII baby boom began about 3 years after the birthrate rose in the U.S., because Canadian soldiers returned home later.
oBW6R
TIL a German filmmaker once asked Carthusian monks for permission to film a documentary of their lives. They responded affirmatively 16 years later and the film took 5 more years to complete.