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9wKrG TIL that The Cospaia Republic became independent because of a treaty error and survived from 1440 to 1826.
jDLR TIL that Delilah from the song “Hey There Delilah” is a real person and actually attended the grammys when the song was nominated for multiple awards
4X4ga TIL in the early 1900s, women used hatpins to fend off sexual harassers in the streets. These pins were so effective in fending off assaulters that legislation was proposed to curb these “accessories to assault.” Men would often come away with wounds that were “not serious, but very painful.”
GYvW4 TIL Italian police officers posed as "pizza delivery boys" in order to arrest mafia boss Roberto Manganiello of Naples’ notorious Camorra mafia, listed as “one of Italy’s 100 most dangerous criminals” as he watched football in his apartment. He offered no resistance to the fake "delivery boys."
Wwr4 TIL Poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec survived a German concentration camp by killing his guard with a shovel that was given to him to dig his own grave - and then escaping in the guards uniform.