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TIL Lego has an underground vault, containing one copy of each Lego set ever made

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Br7xD TIL that a baby prince from Khawarizam (Persia) was sold as a slave after the Mongols invaded their land and killed his family. He arrived in Egypt and rose among the ranks until he became king. He then lead the army and served the Mongols their biggest defeat in history.
ADgWx TIL Freud never cured a single patient, saw psychoanalysis largely as a way to make money and once told a patient her sore throat was a symptom of her unconscious desire to suck her father's penis
nWkQP TIL Bach liked to sneak his name into his music
7Nrp TIL in 2014, a 23 year old female accidentally killed herself by absorbing methamphetamine via her vagina - the autopsy found a meth-filled plastic bag inside of her, and the concentration in her blood was 2.4 times the greatest concentration ever found in a human
yQ5lV TIL that according to John Lennon, the ticket mentioned in the 1965 Beatles hit “Ticket to Ride” refers not to an actual ticket for travel, but refers to cards carried by prostitutes in 1960s Hamburg to indicate a clean bill of health.