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TIL that the world’s last Feudal Lord saved her tiny island from WWII German invaders by etiquette, snobbery, and a lot of pluck

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GY0n1 TIL Winston Churchill’s Historic “Fight Them on the Beaches” Speech Wasn’t Heard by the Public Until After WWII
b9PPp TIL How Germans loved to pose with men in POLAR BEAR costumes. Frenchwoman Jean-Marie Donat amassed a collection over 10,000 vintage photos of 1920s and 1930s Germans, posing with men dressed up as polar bears.
j6Pep TIL that 8 of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence were born in the British Isles
4kdMw TIL: One scientific theory suggests that the passage of time is due to our expanding universe. As the universe expands, it pulls time with it because space and time are linked as one. So if the universe were to stop expanding and begin to contract, then time would reverse
6rNw TIL the US government poisoned alcohol as a deterrent during prohibition. This backfired when people didn’t stop and thousands of people died before prohibition ended.