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TIL that people in medieval times slept in two segments

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X0eOr TIL of the 1920 Wall Street bombing which killed 40 people and was never solved and was the deadliest terrorist attack in US then. Although investigators and historians believe it was carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year.
N7me TIL 103 cars were destroyed while filming The Blues Brothers. At time of release, this was a world record, not beaten until 104 cars were wrecked in filming Blues Brothers 2000.
4k9Eo TIL One of Portugal's best-known writers was a mechanic who hadn't even been to school.
R7Dk4 TIL United States currency paper is composed of 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen. Making it not actually paper, but cloth.
0waDN TIL A medieval French soldier climbed up a toilet into a besieged castle to let his army in. King John of England had specifically requested that toilet be installed for personal use during church services. The castle’s fall led to English loss of Normandy and the signing of the Magna Carta.