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TIL that the act of scaling defensive walls or ramparts with the aid of ladders, a prominent and dangerous siege warfare tactic in medieval times, is called "Escalade"

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ZxnQ TIL when the Beatles played Canada, Ringo Starr was accompanied onstage by a bodyguard and police sharpshooters because he received death threats from anti-Semites. To which Ringo replied, “Some people decided to make an example of me, as an English Jew. The one major fault is I’m not Jewish.”
bpQ0 TIL Studies have shown that smoking can actually shorten your penis by as much as a centimeter.
XEowr TIL that in 2012 scientists at the Hadron Collider formed a quark-gluon plasma and subsequently recorded the hottest temperature created by man, 5.5 trillion degrees celsius.
0dmBA TIL that the Blériot XI is the world's oldest flyable plane having first been built in 1909.
xV4gD TIL that Aramaic -the language spoken by the historical Jesus- is still being spoken as a mother tongue in a small village in Syria.