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TIL of ferret-legging, a sport where people try to keep live ferrets in their pants for as long as possible.

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D1EVD TIL Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo was partly due to a volcanic eruption in Indonesia. Electrically charged volcanic ash short-circuited Earth's atmosphere in 1815, causing global poor weather. Rainy and muddy conditions helped the Allied army defeat Napoleon.
Llrr TIL that the CIA wanted to commit acts of terrorism inside the US in order to gain support for a war against communist Cuba.
kJAVW TIL about Phantasmagoria, a French pre-cinema horror shadow show where audiences were entertained with ghost tales, demon myths, and other stories to scare them by using shadows projected on a wall, mood lighting, and auto-suggestive narration.
Ypmv TIL that when Charles Whitman began his shooting rampage at U Texas in 1966, a lot of locals grabbed their rifles and started shooting back. They kept him pinned down until the police could sneak up the tower and kill him.
jQYR TIL Alexander the Great’s father had 3000 POWs executed by “ritual drowning.”