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TIL scholars argue the wizard Merlin was based on a real person — a druid from 5th or 6th-century Scotland who influenced Arthurian legends

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7rYZP TIL - Mexico was the second deadliest country after Syria in 2016, and 2017 numbers are expected to be even higher.
VMAE8 TIL Richard Klinkhamer's wife "disappeared" in 1991. He then wrote a book on seven ways to kill your spouse. In 2000, new owners of his former home found the skeletal remains of his wife, and in 2001 he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in 2003 for good behavior.
VMm84 TIL 40% of Americans have never been outside of the US, and 11% have never left the state they were born in.
Jr8B TIL the Knickerbocker Knitting Company, later known as Champion, made the first hoodie
gM6P7 TIL that due to the centrifugal force resulting from the rotation of the Earth, we weigh roughly 0.5% less at the equator than at the poles.