Post * nW85r — Curious Curator

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TIL that actor Tom Hanks is distantly related to "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" host Fred Rogers. Hanks is sixth cousins with Rogers, and they share the same great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Johannes Mefford.

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oXDR TIL that, while usually remembered for the French Revolution, the guillotine was used extensively by the Nazis during their time in power in Germany. As many were killed with it in Nazi Germany as were killed during the French Reign of Terror, including 10,000 people between 1944 and 1945 alone.

QJmV6 TIL: The "Phantom Vibration Syndrome" is a condition in which people mistakenly think their phone vibrates in their pocket. It affects 90% (9/10 people).

yV5Re TIL In 1976, 3 men kidnapped a school bus with 26 children aboard. They then buried them alive inside a box truck to try and get a $5,000,000 ransom.

WknmY TIL of the "national bathtub", a mass execution during the French Revolution when thousands of suspected royalists were drowned in the river Loire. At first, the perpetrators carried the drownings at night to avoid suspicion, but the dozen of floating bodies in the following days gave them away.

41pg TIL that Mozart disliked Adriana Ferrarese del Bene due to her arrogance. Knowing that she has the tendency to drop her chin on low notes and throw back her head on high notes, Così fan tutte was made just to make her head “bob like a chicken” onstage.