Neat Historical Facts

The high watermark of the German advance eastward in WW2 was when a unit of motorcycle infantry reached a Moscow suburb some ~15 miles from the Kremlin.

>>2717167
The man who killed John Wilkes Booth during the manhunt, Boston Corbett, had castrated himself with a pair of scissors to stop himself from having impure thoughts.

When a growing season ended, people saw their fertility god as having died, and when the growing season returned they saw their god as having been resurrected. One such god worshipped by the Greeks was Adonis. Adonis was believed to spend his annual death with the goddess Persephone in the invisible place where the spirits who had vanished dwelled: Hades. Each year when the growing season returned, Adonis was seen to have returned to living in blissful union with the fertility goddess of love, Aphrodite.

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>>2717190
Prior to the assassination, Booth's older brother Edwin (also a renowned actor) saved Robert Todd Lincoln's life by pulling him up from the tracks after the younger man had fallen off a train platform.

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In 1913, Josip Broz Tito, Sigmund Freud, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Adolf Hitler all lived in Vienna and were regulars at the Cafe Central

>>2719040
I can imagine them talking to each other, they share similar views ultimately.
They aren't heathens to each other, more like heretics, disagreeing on the details.

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A Serbian immigrant led Texas rebellion against Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fisher_(settler)

I just learrned the other day that Deng Xiaoping went to France to study and work there during the 20s which is what contributed to him creating the chinese communist party.

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In 1980, the city of Detroit honored Saddam Hussein by giving him the keys to the city. Hussein had donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Muslim community there. Also, Coleman Young was insane.

>>2717167
Kurt Schuschnigg, chancellor of Austria from Dollfuss's assassination until the Anschluss, was a professor of political science at Saint Louis University in the United States for nearly 20 years after World War II.

In order to win the contest amongst the Persian nobles for the throne after Bardiya's death, there was a contest where they all mounted their horses first in the morning and whosever horse neighed first would be the next king. Darius had one of his servants rub his hands over his horse's mare's genitals and stand next to him to win

Napoleon III had gold and silver tableware, but when he really wanted to impress people, he used cutlery made from aluminum. It used to be worth more than gold. The Washington monument was topped with an aluminum cap and some people complained it was far too extravagant.

Herbert Hokver and his wife both spoke fluent Mandarin from his time working over in China. Whenever they wanted to talk about something privately at the White House they talked in Mandarin.

>>2719040
false

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>>2717167
Both Napoleon and Hitler, plus a few more famous people, shat their pants as adults!!! How does that make you feel????? Hungry???

>>2720965
I'm thinking Arby's!!!

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>>2717167
Both Napoleon and Hitler had dysentery more than once is what I'm trying to say.

>>2719090
>Adonis
Pol Pot also studied at the Sorbonne

Wile E. Coyote spoke in one cartoon. It was the only one where he pursued Bugs Bunny and not the Road Runner.

>>2720980
That's AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!JUST WOW!!!!!!

>>2721026
Only one Twilight Zone episode doesn't have the words "Twilight Zone" in the opening/ ending monologue. It was "He's Alive" about a neo-nazi who is influenced by Adolf Hitler.

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Ike Eisenhower player minor league baseball under an assumed name the year before he went to West Point

He's the top middle right player in this photo.

The British haven't won a war in three hundred years

>>2721100
Did he like to shit in his pants like his hero, too?

>>2717167
>dictator

That man was a god dammed hero

>>2719090
Many Asian communist leaders studied in France during the 20's. Part of the reason is that they had gone to Versailles to ask Wilson to uphold his self-determination policy and the only people who would listen were the socialists which caused them to ultimately stay and study.