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TIL of “Zone Rouges”. Areas of France so polluted with vast amounts of human and animal remains and millions of items of unexploded ordnance from WWI that no human activity is allowed there.

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Wj44 TIL that the term ‘Viking’ denotes an occupation not a people
LQddm TIL in 2003, art historian Juan Junquera has questioned the authenticity of the 14 Black Paintings by Goya. According to Junquera, Goya's son may have created the paintings, and his grandson later passed them off as Goya's works for financial gain
VWL0 TIL that the last recorded kill using a bow and arrow in war was made in WWII by British officer Jack Churchill, who carried a longbow, bagpipes and a Scottish broadsword into battle
nWoaP TIL During early development the gonads of the [human] fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.
l7GLN TIL about Micturition Syncope (fainting while you pee)