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TIL Alexander I of Yugoslavia refused to attend public events on Tuesdays after three family members died on that day of the week. After finally being forced to appear on Tuesday, he was promptly assassinated.

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QNvpp TIL the highly poisonous plant, deadly nightshade was named belladonna (beautiful woman in Italian) as women would use it in eye drops to make their eyes look more seductive
9w5G6 TIL A Nashville music promoter tried to open a for-profit museum about the JFK assassination at the Dallas Texas School Book Depository building in the 1970s. Floors of the building stayed empty until the Sixth Floor Museum opened in 1989 in response to the many visitors who visit Dealey Plaza
rN1J1 TIL: During the US Civil War, a father issued a writ of habeus corpus to get his underaged Son out of the US Army, when the writ was delivered to the camp, the provost had both the lawyer who had delivered the writ, and the Judge who had issued the writ arrested and imprisoned.
neNYW TIL that due to elephants with tusks getting poached, humans are literally causing natural selection from more elephants being born tuskless over the past decades.
kOJeE All muscles are capable of cramping, but the ones farthest away from your spinal cord—in your feet and lower legs, for example—tend to be the most vulnerable to seizing up. The long, spindly nerve cells that run from the spinal cord to the toes are especially prone to damage. The prevalence of nerve damage increases with age, so the elderly are among the most common victims.