Post * gMKB7 — Curious Curator

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TIL That after they decommissioned a torpedo type in the 1980s, the rear tubes were used for storing beer.

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R7XRw TIL that the vampires were not inspired by bats. Bloodsucking bats were only discovered in Latin America in the 16th century, while the earliests vampires stories were from 12th century Europe.

b6nQj TIL that James Barrie lost his 13-year-old brother in an accident as a kid. To comfort his mother, he started speaking and acting like his brother, and his mother always treated him as if he was his dead brother. Thus, Barrie later wrote a novel about a kid stuck in eternal childhood: "Peter Pan".

D1BPV TIL Hitler used a propaganda technique called the "Big lie". The use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously

8evmP TIL NFL great Jim Brown retired at only 29 while filming "The Dirty Dozen"

Ng06 TIL That Alexandre Dumas was black, and suffered at the hands of racism for most of his life, yet still was celebrated as France’s most widely read writer having written ‘The Three Musketeers’ and 'The Count of Monte Cristo’.