Post * yQMlJ — Curious Curator

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TIL that Nintendo originated in 1889 and they originally produced playing cards

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OEXa TIL of a 12 year old French boy who staged an elaborate faked a kidnapping of himself just to avoid going to the dentist.

Brvob TIL of Nicholas Winton, a man who rescued 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII. He died at age 106 in 2015.

dYO7 TIL That a British PoW captured by the Germans in World War I was freed to see his dying mother - but went back to the prison camp after giving the Kaiser ‘his word’ he would return.

9YGBQ TIL: That on the same day, July 23rd, 1943, both The United States and Nazi Germany officially submitted requests to their respective aircraft manufacturers for bombers capable of crossing the Atlantic ocean.

XEwek TIL of Richard Rich, a Catholic who supported, under Henry VIII, the destruction of monasteries and execution of monks. He gave testimony obtained through promises of friendship to execute clergy and personally tortured a Protestant woman. He is seen as one of the worst people in English history.