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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jYRE TIL Schoolhouse Rock! was created by an ad agency exec who noticed that his son had learned every Beatles lyric but could not remember multiplication tables.

6EMO8 TiL the first time Germany bombed a civilian target during WWII was an accident. The retaliation led to the Blitz, which was actually great for Britain because the RAF air fields had almost been completely put out of action by Luftwaffe action up to that point and Hitler changed targets.

d8ZwQ TIL that there is a Spiderman comic (The Amazing Spiderman #36) that deals with Spiderman being too late to stop 9/11. Spiderman along with four of his arch rivals help out at the scene of the attack by lifting rubble and rescuing survivors.

NXy5N TIL: The Wiggles have a rich history, including starting as “Cockroaches”, aspirations for head Wiggle, and the love, and divorce, and continued co-Wiggling of two current cast members

YjM7 TIL President Franklin D. Roosevelt thought every American should own an acre of land so that they could be self-sustaining in case of catastrophe.