If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page whe→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Surviving a 2 Mile Fall Without a Parachute and a 10 Day Trek Alone in the Peruvian Rainforest https://youtu.be/3m8Ybc4wVzk The Not-So-Holy Order of the Friars of St Francis of Wycombe https://youtu.be/GX-nPf8N0MM In this video: It was a century ago when famed World War I German fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen was fatally shot out of the sky. Yet, his nickname – “Red Baron” – remains part of American vernacular. Charles Schulz’s comic strip character Snoopy famously took on the Red Baron in his imaginary air battles aboard his doghouse, often yelling “Curse you, Red Baron!” Movies and songs feature the German war hero. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/04/who-was-the-red-baron/ Sources: https://www.history.com/news/ace-of-aces-how-the-red-baron-became-wwis-most-legendary-fighter-pilot https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/19/world/death-of-red-baron-von-richthofen-auction-feat/index.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/red-baron-theories.html http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/manfred-albrecht-freiherr-von-richthofen-a-k-a-the-red-baron-crashed-in-his-first-solo-flight/ http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/10/19/skonicamino15100914540%5B2%5D.pdf http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/mind-red-baron.html https://schulzmuseum.org/traveling-exhibits/snoopy-red-baron/ https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/manfred-baron-von-richthofen https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gavrilo-princips-sandwich-79480741/ https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/27/opinion/7-things-gavrilo-princip-man-who-started-wwi/index.html http://www.richthofen.com/ https