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TIL about the worlds most violent courtship “the rough wooing” in which England invaded Scotland with the goal of capturing its infant queen Mary Stuart and forcing her to marry the English prince and later king Edward VI.

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78DPb TIL of the Sampit Conflict (2001), in which indigenous Dayak went back to their headhunting ways and massacred/beheaded hundreds of migrant Madurese people in the city of Sampit. Around 500-1000 people were killed and 100-700 were beheaded.
J08k TIL 87 percent of all Americans can be uniquely identified using only three bits of information: ZIP code, birth date, and sex.
0wpvp TIL that Notre Dame students once stormed a KKK parade in Indiana, ripping robes and hoods off the Klansmen and driving them out of the area, ruining the rally.
6E077 TIL that there is one animal that can literally save its ass (for a while) by getting rid of it. An Argentinian scorpion called Ananteris balzanii removes its poisonous tail to hurt his foes, but loses his anus in the process. The result: his life is lengthened a bit but he gets chronic constipation
ZpYlG TIL the Denton House is a historic building in New Hyde Park, New York that was built in 1795 as a farmhouse and converted to a Georgian-style mansion in the 1860s and is currently a McDonald's restaurant.