Post * X7xk — Curious Curator

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TIL Charlie Chaplin used his only speaking role in Hollywood to spread a message of world peace

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bnRN TIL During the Cold War, America was inspired to build a more efficient interstate system as a way to provide a speedy evacuation route in the event of nuclear war.

0wdwj TIL In the skies over Germany in WWII, a badly damaged American B-17 was escorted out of enemy airspace by a German fighter ace who could've easily shot them down. Years later after the war, Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler reunited and became lifelong friends.

bKn7 TIL that British colonials in India used gin to cover the bitter taste of anti-malarial quinine tonic, thus creating the Gin & Tonic.

l4p1 TIL that in 2012 the laws of succession were altered to allow the eldest child born within the British Royal family, regardless of gender, to precede his or her siblings.

Ax9B TIL That Spongebob Squarepants was originally going to be called Spongeboy and the show was originally going to be called Spongeboy Ahoy, but they had to change his name after it turned out that Spongeboy was the copyrighted name of a mop.