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TIL King Henry VIII's body might've literally exploded in his coffin due to a build-up of gasses

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dygZ TIL in 1918, after a white man was killed by a black man, a white mob went on a week-long riot and killed at least 13 people, including an African-American woman. She was burned alive, and her unborn baby was cut from her stomach and crushed because she spoke out against her husband’s murder.
N108 TIL There is a 230 foot long sea organ on the coast of Croatia. The organ, designed by architect Nikola Basic has 35 tubes that make music whenever the waves crash into them.
6VeZ TIL That the Vikings were actually much cleaner than we assume them to be today; Saxon women even preferred them to their own (Saxon)men.
7r6gO TIL The U.S. Pentagon has more members of the military serving in marching bands than the State Department has career diplomats.
W7MG9 TIL I learned that my sext images via WhatsApp automatically save to my photo library while showing vacation pics to Grandma