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TIL the Goths besieging Constantinople in 378 AD were left stunned when one of the defenders stormed out of the city completely naked, decapitated one of the attackers and proceeded to drink the blood from his neck

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Ypn87 TIL a couple in the background of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ gets engaged, pregnant, their son graduates high school, then the husband passes away all in the same scene.
loRGN TIL that wild parrots lived in the eastern United States until 1918. The Carolina parakeet was a colorful, but poisonous bird that was native to areas as far east as the Atlantic coast, and as far north as Wisconsin.
B0nr TIL Aldous Huxley asked for LSD on his death bed and died whilst tripping
WjDo TIL it’s impossible to smoothly scan your eyes from left to right (or vice versa), except if you’re tracking a moving object. Otherwise, your vision jumps from focus point to focus point, even while reading.
p8J5G TIL according to a new 3D model of the Milky Way, our galaxy is warped and shaped like the popular brand of potato chip. “I’d say that it is shaped like a Pringle” said Radek Poleski, an astronomer at Ohio State University who helped to create the new map.