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TIL Mongols used catapult to send dead soldier bodies infected by the plague across the walls.

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4lGJ TIL that when Ian McKellen, the actor who went on to play both Magneto and Gandalf, came out as gay in the ’80s, his aim was to get rid of a law in the UK called Section 28.
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