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TIL that the Persian Empire counted how many soldiers in a battle died through counting the arrows that each soldier would place in a basket before a battle. When the soldiers came back, they each picked up an arrow and the remaining arrows would be counted to calculate the total amount of deaths

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kRgB TIL the family of Ron Goldman (the guy OJ was acquitted of murdering) was awarded the rights to his infamous book “If I Did It” as a result of the civil trial, renamed it “Confessions of a Killer”, then published it.
loKAN TIL in the 1930’s, Warner Bros. was looking for an effective way to promote their music catalog. They settled on making animated shorts set to their music — calling it “Looney Tunes”.
pm0p TIL That the pit of death in ‘300’ actually exists.
njmW TIL that in January 1992 28.000 bath toys fell off a cargo ship. Some of them are still out there.
MRva TIL that two months after escaping the World Trade Center on 9/11, a 26-year old woman died on American Airlines Flight 587 that crashed in Queens, New York, killing 265.