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Today I learned that there was a plague which caused people to dance in the middle ages... crazy history out there!

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86XX TIL there was a woman who grew tired of her Russian adopted son’s violent behavior, so she sent him back on a one-way flight to the country from whence he came with a half-page note explaining the situation.
leBr TIL Korean is a “language isolate”, a language with no known relatives. It has more speakers than every other isolate combined.
9w0Rp TIL: Besides witch trials, there was a Wizard trial in Lyon which saw mainly men sentenced to death. They planned to form a pact with Satan and use magic to find hidden treasure. This differed from the usual cases of curses.
KjYa TIL the Germans accidentally bombed themselves during the onset of WW2, then used propaganda to blame the French and British while threatening five-fold retaliation.
JdZ8 TIL That after being mistaken for dead, dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel was shocked to read his obituaries, one of which dubbed him “The Merchant of Death”. He thought to redeem himself by donating his wealth in trust to celebrate life achievements. The Nobel Prize