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TIL that competitive full contact fighting in medieval suits of armor is a thing, and it is brutal.

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GYGyG TIL A pod of Killer Whales that desperately needed a young, healthy female had their only young female killed by hemorrhaging in her ear canals as US Navy tested its bombs despite repeated requests by Whale researchers not to do so .Killer Whales are declared Endangered Animals in US
79Mr TIL that the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud, had 45 sons, and almost 100 children total. The next king will be the first king that isn’t Ibn Saud’s direct son.
GADOg TIL Jimmy Carter met his future wife, Rosalynn, three days after she was born, when Lillian Carter brought her 3 year old son to meet a newborn she helped deliver. They started dating 18 years later, in 1945.
mKXo TIL that Ernest Hemingway was not the only one in his family to commit suicide. His father, sister, brother, son, and granddaughter also committed suicide. This is the origin of the term “Hemingway curse”.
ANPAw TIL that Bowie didn't do the amazing crystal ball juggling in Labyrinth.