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TIL Pierre Terrail (a french knight) single-handedly defended a bridge against 200 Spaniards during the battle of Garigliano.

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E1nKp TIL that the climate of the Sahara undergoes enormous variations between wet and dry every 20500 years due to a tilt in the earth.At present (2018 AD), we are in a dry period, but it is expected that the Sahara will become green again in 15000 years
8e5WV TIL in WWII, Germany had a submarine exclusively for resupplying other submarines. The Type XIV "milk cow" had a bakery, a small clinic with a doctor, fresh food and extra fuel and torpedoes. The Type XIV allowed German U-Boats to patrol indefinitely near US waters.
65Y TIL a 34 year old man once spent 41 hours trapped in an elevator in New York - “He walked onto an elevator one night, with his life in one kind of shape, and emerged from it with his life in another.”
Wk7pB TIL in the Bible (Deut 14:26) God wanted his chosen people to spend their money on their hearts desire's including wine and hard liquor.
kOJVm TIL Africville was a black community in Halifax dating from 1840s but razed in the mid-1960s and its 400 residents were relocated as part of a redevelopment plan. Moving Africvillers into the city was seen by the government as a way to integrate them and meet their needs