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TIL that bayonet charges still sometimes occur in modern warfare

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VMOv8 TIL that between 1764-1767, a man-eating animal/group of animals terrorized a province in central France. The number of victims differs greatly, from 60 to over a 100. The beast was allegedly shot and killed in 1767. Modern scholars believe the attacks were carried out by wolves.
6EvWQ TIL in an interview on the set of Pulp Fiction, Bruce Willis predicts that in 5 years some kids would make a movie filmed exclusively on camcorders with poor lighting and a micro budget that would be a huge hit. 5 years after Pulp Fiction came out The Blair Witch Project was released.
4Xaa6 TIL that the Puritans got their name from their desire to have a completely Biblical "pure" church in England after the reformation.
p8PGO TIL The Portia Hypothesis is a scientific theory that claims that women with masculine sounding names, do better in male dominated fields such as law and engineering, than women with feminine names. It is named after a female Shakespeare character who dresses up as a male lawyer and wins a trial.
16oRW TIL that sewage treatment plants are not currently designed to remove pharmaceutical drugs from water. Nor are the facilities that treat water to make it drinkable. The aquatic life, particularly fish, are shown that estrogen and chemicals that behave like it have a feminizing effect on male fish.