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TIL in the year 623 the Tuyuhun Kingdom lost the battle of Gansu because they were distracted by an erotic dance which caused more than 500 casualties.

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P1E0e TIL about London's "Frost Fairs" back when the river Thames used to freeze over about once a decade. People would set up shops, pubs and ice skating rinks on a layer of ice thick enough you could walk an elephant on it. The last fair was held in 1814, that was the last time the river ever froze.
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