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TIL that spiritual beings are always around us and influencing us

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Bk9k TIL that Filip Konowal, a Canadian WW1 veteran and Victoria Cross recipient, upon discovering that a bootlegger had viciously beaten a friend of his, disarmed the man and stabbed him to death. Konowal later told police: “I’ve killed fifty-two of them, that makes the fifty-third.”
69bl8 TIL that Burt Bacharach put Cilla Black through at least 29 takes of “Alfie” in his search for the perfect recording. Producer George Martin finally intervened to say he already had it in take 4, and that was the version released.
4kgr5 TIL millionaires and billionaires account for 1.1% of the world population.
4Xa5X TIL Ancient Romans flooded the Colosseum for mock naval battles.
d8g98 TIL during the early 1900s, hat pins were used by women for self-defense; Mademoiselle Gelas even wrote a manual advising a combination of jiu-jitsu, hatpin stabbing and umbrella work to fend off men.