Post * RoMQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that Indian war chief “Rain-in-the-face” told General Custer before the Battle of Little Big Horn that “he would find him on the battlefield, rip his heart out, and eat it in front of him.” Long story short, he did.

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X0VJD TIL Brazil turned Pelé into a national treasure to stop him from leaving the country to play soccer in Europe

N7Gb8 TIL: Condoms are NOT effective against HPV or Herpes

D1Pyp TIL Bayezid II, an Ottoman Sultan that took in displaced Jews from the Spanish Inquisition, reportedly taunted the King of Spain by saying: "You venture to call Ferdinand a wise ruler, he who has impoverished his own country and enriched mine!"

p8VB4 TIL the director of GoldenEye 007 (the game) discovered an issue with the N64's hardware, prior to the console's launch. Silicon Graphics, makers of the N64 chipset, considered doing a revision with a fix, but ultimately decided not to, due to costs and the possibility of that causing another delay

KAv4 TIL That the fight scene on top of a train in Skyfall was actually filmed on top of a real moving train, and Daniel Craig did not use a stunt double.