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TIL people of the Mongol empire NEVER washed their clothes or themselves because they believed washing would pollute the water and anger the dragons that controlled the water cycle.

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4kkJN TIL there were electric cab companies in the 19th century.
Oo7Ka Today I learned Norman Rockwell painted a depiction of the June 21, 1964 murders of the three young civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman in Philadelphia, Mississippi, for the magazine Look.
B9JW TIL of the Forty Elephants, or Forty Thieves; an all-female shoplifting ring that operated in London from the 1870s to the 1950s.
kmod TIL Genghis Khan slaughtered the inhabitants of an entire city because they killed his son-in-law. Khan’s grieving daughter requested that all citizens be decapitated to ensure they were dead and that pyramids be built from their skulls…which took 10 days.
VMWPD TIL The legendary pirate Blackbeard had a flag that depicted a skeleton piercing a human heart with one hand and toasting the devil in the other hand against a black background.