Today’s British accent first appeared among London’s upper class around the time of the American Revolution. Before that, the British accent was similar to that of Americans.

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Hitler was saved from drowning by a priest when he was 4 years old.

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“All Quiet on the Western Front” was banned in Poland for being pro-German and in Germany for being anti-German.

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Serial killer Charles Manson was going to get married in 2015 but he called off when he realized his fiancee just wanted his corpse for display as a tourist attraction.

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There’s a monument to honor the almost 1 million Allied horses who died during World War I.

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The term influenza comes from the Italian word meaning “influence”, an allusion to the influence the stars were once believed to have on our health.

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