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TIL that in 1518 there was a outbreak of a 'dancing plague' in Strasbourg, in which hundreds of people inexplicably danced for weeks on end, claiming lives of victims along the way…

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jVeX TIL Shia LaBeouf’s name literally translates to “Thank God for Beef.”
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VBENm TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down
8a8e8 TIL that after the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in 1963, his alleged murderer was tried by an all-white jury who deadlocked twice and failed to convict. In 1994, Evers was discovered to be so well embalmed that forensic autopsy was still possible, leading to his murderers conviction.
4kVY5 TIL A study in the UK found that the number of CEOs of top companies with red hair was four times higher than the percentage of persons with red hair in the general population.