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TIL that the Afro-Bolivian people have their own, separate monarchy

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KElE TIL if you polish an ancient sword that’s been used in battle, even a 2000 year old sword, it literally bleeds out the blood of the people it’s been used on, which “smells like a steak cooking”.
bKV7 TIL that a German landlord once evicted a tenant without notice for pouring surstromming in the stairwells of the the building. When sued over the eviction, he won the case by opening a can of surstromming in the court, convincing the court that the smell of the fish brine was too much to tolerate.
eyaJ TIL Christopher Lee received Tolkien’s blessing to play the role of Gandalf, if a movie was ever released, but he played Saruman instead. He was also the only person involved with the Lord of the Rings films to have actually met Tolkien himself.
M7yr8 TIL some Ancient Mesopotamian texts are… spicy (click LAOS 4, 13)
xQ50 TIL that enough Purple Hearts were manufactured during WWII in anticipation of massive casualties encountered during the proposed invasion of Japan, that there still is a surplus of over 100,000 today