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TIL: Two stones set in to a quiet Edinburgh street mark the site of Scotland's last hanging (in 1815) of convicted highwaymen. Sympathy for the executed men and folklore over the decades spawned a legend that the cement around the stones never fully dries.

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rWge TIL that Claudette Colvin was the first African American woman to refuse to move to the back of a bus nine months before Rosa Parks did, but the NAACP did not want to use her to represent their organization because she was 15 years old and pregnant.
Z8deD TIL that while serving in the Mexican-American war, future U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Monterrey hung off the side of the horse he was riding to use it as a shield while under sniper fire as the horse was still running.
NoEM TIL in Belgium, people with autism, bipolar disorder, depression and other mental illnesses can request to be euthanised.
MerEa TIL that 'burrito' means 'little donkey' in Spanish, named this way because burritos can carry many things, much like a donkey can.
M7VBA TIL about Robert Williams Daniel, a Titanic survivor who it was claimed, swam naked for several hours in the bitterly cold water, before being rescued.