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TIL the oldest known name for the Island of Great Britain is Albion

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a81LJ TIL although forcing captives to walk the plank has been a motif of pirates in popular culture since the 19th century, there are no documented instances of it taking place during the classical "Golden Age of Piracy" (which ended by 1730). The few instances that were recorded occurred well after that
Lk4Dd TIL that killing a tyrant was legal in classical Greece and was called Tyrannicide
v4ED TIL A woman set up a group called “I Need Sex” on facebook which attracted 100 men, 50 of whom she slept with.
VMxGZ TIL: Norway and Senegal are the only national football teams that have never lost against Brazil (Norway has won twice and drawn twice)
jdyn TIL someone edited professional wrestler Chris Benoit’s wikipedia page to include the death of his wife 14 hours before police discovered her body