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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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loo6N TIL Infamous sound barrier-breaking pilot Chuck Yeager happened to take down one of the world’s first jet fighters in WWII, so he gets to say, “The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down."
kJGA1 TIL that between 1970 and 1997 so many post office workers snapped and killed their coworkers that a new slang term "going postal" became a new slang term for becoming exceptionally angry
v1VLL TIL a british woman was found dead in her flat with her TV and air conditioning still running. She had been dead for 2 years before her corpse was discovered.
neNEG TIL "pre-Viking" Europeans may have started settlements in Canada before 1000AD
gZ4b TIL J.R.R. Tolkien asked his wife to marry him by mail after no communication with her for 5 years, meanwhile she was already engaged to another man.