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« #105 : April 21, 2021, 11:12:11 AM »

Since 1945, all British tanks are equipped with tea-making facilities.

   

Before this time, British tank crews had to exit their armored vehicles when they wanted to make a quick coffee.

On the road to Caen in 1944, a German Tiger tanked ambushed and destroyed a parked column of almost thirty armored British vehicles in 15 minutes whilst the crew was having an impromptu tea break.

This made the British high command realize if tank crews could make a brew on the go, then they wouldn’t be susceptible to being caught with their pants down and their kettles out by the enemy.

So after this, the next British-designed battle tank, the Centurion, came with a boiler fitted to the interior powered by the tank’s electric circuits so the crew would never be short of a lovely warm cup of tea!


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« #106 : April 22, 2021, 04:15:59 PM »

During World War I, the French built a “fake Paris”.



Complete with a replica Champs-Elysées and Gard Du Nord, this “fake Paris” was built by the French towards the end of WWI. It was built as a means of throwing off German bombers and fighter pilots flying over French skies.

It also even had a fake railway that lit up at certain points to provide the illusion from above of a train moving along the tracks!


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« #107 : April 26, 2021, 06:01:56 AM »

An ancient text called the Voynich Manuscript still baffles scientists.



Hand-written in an unknown language, the Voynich Manuscript has been carbon-dated to roughly 1404 – 1438.

Some of the pages are missing, and some of them are foldable pull-out pages, while most pages have illustrations.

Hundreds of cryptographers and master codebreakers have tried to decipher it over the years with none succeeding to grasp its meaning or origin.


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« #108 : April 29, 2021, 11:56:46 AM »

Roman Emperor Caligula made one of his favourite horses a senator.



If you didn’t know anything about Caligula, then this is a pretty good way to get the impression.

He was infamous for his brutality and madness. Caligula fed criminals to animals and had conversations with the moon.

He loved his horse – called Incitatus – so much that he gave him a marble stall, an ivory manger, a jeweled collar, and even a house!

Caligula made his horse a senator and allegedly planned to make him Consul before his assassination.


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« #109 : May 03, 2021, 12:38:13 PM »

Einstein's brain was stolen when he died.



When Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein passed away on April 18, 1955, he left behind specific instructions when it came to the disposal of his body, according to one National Geographic investigation. Einstein didn't want his corpse to be worshiped or his brain to be studied, so he instructed those who were responsible for his remains to "cremate them, and scatter the ashes secretly in order to discourage idolaters."

However, Thomas Harvey, the pathologist on call when Einstein died at New Jersey's Princeton Hospital, didn't quite follow those instructions. Instead, he stole Einstein's brain. From there, things got even weirder. When Einstein's family found out, his son apparently didn't object to the theft and Harvey was able to keep the brain in two jars in his basement before moving it to "a cider box stashed under a beer cooler."


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« #110 : May 03, 2021, 01:09:00 PM »

V...Gotta watch those people from Jersey. LOL

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« #111 : May 04, 2021, 10:40:35 AM »

@ Jess   LOL  so true!

The Leaning Tower of Pisa was never straight.



Known worldwide for its four degrees lean, this freestanding bell tower was constructed in the 12th Century.

When construction on the second story started, due to the unstable ground it was built on, the tower started to lean.

After this, the lean only increased as the construction process went on, and it went on to become more iconic than the tower itself!


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« #112 : May 07, 2021, 08:52:26 AM »

Lady Liberty wears a size 879 shoe.



It's no secret that the Statue of Liberty is a mighty monument. The copper section alone is 151 feet and one inch tall. But if Lady Liberty needed a new pair of sandals, it would take size 879 shoes to cover her massive feet.


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« #113 : May 08, 2021, 10:09:06 AM »

Iceland has the world’s oldest parliament in history.



Called the Althing, it was established in 930 and has stayed as the acting parliament of Iceland since then.


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« #114 : May 09, 2021, 11:31:06 AM »

46 BC was 445 days long and is the longest year in human history.



Nicknamed the annus confusionis, or “year of confusion”, this year had two extra leap months inserted by Julius Caesar.

This was in order to make his newly-formed Julian Calendar match up with the seasonal year.

This calendar is a variation of which is still used in most places across the world today


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« #115 : May 13, 2021, 12:25:28 PM »

There's a toilet museum.



The Sulabh International Museum Of Toilets in New Delhi, India, features a rare collection of objects "detailing the historic evolution of toilets" from 2500 BCE to right up until today. Learn about the toilet systems of ancient societies, the elaborately decorated toilets of 18th- and 19th-century Europe, and even a toilet from Austria that's shaped like a lion so that you can feel like you're riding the wild beast while doing your business.


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« #116 : May 15, 2021, 09:42:54 AM »

100 million years ago, the Sahara Desert was inhabited by galloping crocodiles.



Back then, the Sahara Desert was a lush plain full of life – and also full of predators.

In 2009, fossil hunters found the remains of crocodiles.

These remains had large land-going legs that were capable of galloping across the land at breakneck speeds.

They could easily snap up unlucky dinosaurs in their jaws!


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« #118 : May 17, 2021, 12:24:35 PM »

People in Medieval England had rap battles.



Before rap battles, there was "flyting," a trading of insults that was popular from the 5th to the 16th centuries in England and Scotland. As Atlas Obscura describes it, "Participants employed the timeless tools of provocation and perversion as well as satire, rhetoric, and early bathroom humor to publicly trounce opponents." Even society's elite would join in these battles of wits.


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« #119 : May 17, 2021, 01:07:42 PM »

Before the 19th Century, dentures were made from dead soldiers’ teeth.



Dentistry in 1815 wasn’t exactly as… “intricate” as it is today. In fact, it was downright savage!

After the Battle of Waterloo, dentists flocked to the battlefield to scavenge teeth from the tens of thousands of dead soldiers.

They then took their bounty to their dental workshops are crafted them into dentures for toothless rich people.


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