Post * epWQE — Curious Curator

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TIL that, during WW2, the USA wanted to turn France into a puppet state and abolish its'national sovereignty

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D1N9p TIL that Samurai in Japan had the right to execute commoners who paid them disrespect. This right continued until the 1870s, when the Samurai were abolished, as Japan modernized its military into a national fighting force modeled on Western standards.

MMDm TIL America has only won the World Baseball Cup 4 times, Cuba has won it 25 times and Britain once.

ADLKx TIL many chewing gums are pink because the inventor of Double Bubble (the first bubble gum) only had pink food coloring in his factory, and others copied his invention

0dEY1 TIL the Roman Emperor Tiberius would execute boys whose sexual company he had grown tired of by having them thrown from a cliff into the sea while he watched. Some were tortured before being executed, and if they survived the fall, men waiting would break their bones with oars and boathooks.

neZA9 TIL that there is a forest in France with wild wallabies. The Australian marsupials, which resemble small kangaroos, escaped from an enclosure in the 70s and have been thriving in the wild ever since.