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TIL Egyptians, Palestinians, and Iranians held ceremonies in their countries mourning the deaths of nearly three thousand Americans in the September 11th terrorist attacks

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MkZ0 TIL that Edgar Allen Poe’s death is still a mystery and that a masked man puts roses and cognac on his grave once a year!
mxw7x TIL about Anna Göldi an 18th-century Swiss woman who was the last person to be executed in Europe for witchcraft.
eyMb TIL that George Harrison lost his virginity on the top bed of a bunk bed. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were on the bottom bed, and started cheering when he finished
D7nj TIL The Vikings used a stone which helped them track the sun for up to 40 minutes after it had set to aid navigating their warships
wL7x8 Til, Heracleitus, sick with Dropsy, tried to cure it by covering himself in cow dung, thinking that it would draw the bad humours out. One version claims that the manure was too wet and he drowned in it, another that it was too dry and he dried out, third version says dogs ate him whole.