Post * WDxo — Curious Curator

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TIL: At the time of WW1, the King of Britain, Russia, and Germany were all first cousins. When asked about WW1, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany sarcastically remarked, “If my grandmother [Queen Victoria] had been alive, she would never have allowed it.”

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p8r6Z TIL Hitler had France surrender in the same railway carriage at the same spot France and England made Germany surrender in WWI

GAJ1j TIL that in 1923, a jockey named Frank Hayes won a horse race at Belmont Park in New York despite dying mid-race. He suffered a heart attack but stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the finish line first. It was the only race he ever won, and the horse was named "Sweet Kiss." After the incid

OMg7 TIL That in 2011, Ketchup was banned in French School Cafeterias on the grounds that it posed a threat to the national cuisine

PYnDg TIL children's poet Shel Silverstein had a daughter who died of cerebral aneurysm at 11 years old.

PY9vE TIL the original ending to Back to the Future would have Marty driving 88 mph towards a nuclear blast in a nuclear test site. However, Universal deemed it too expensive to shoot in the desert, so the lightning scene was instead shot at the Universal backlot and is shown in the final version.