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TIL that the Mongols would catapult the dead bodies of soldiers infected by the bubonic plague over city walls during sieges. This was one of the earliest known accounts of biological warfare.

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KYNeJ TIL of Yoshie Shiratori, a Japanese man who successfully broke out of 4 different Japanese prisons (once using miso soup to corrode and break his cuffs). After his 4th escape, he encountered a police officer who offered him a cigarette. Touched by this gesture, he willingly turned himself in again.
v1WA8 TIL the world record for eating three 72-oz steaks is held by a 120lb woman who ate them in 20 minutes
gr6a8 TIL that all of China uses one time zone. On July 1, sunrise in the country’s east is at 3:05 am and sunset in the country’s west is at 10:26 pm. On Jamuary 1, sunrise in the west is at 10:16 am and sunset in the east is at 3:18 pm.
5Yv98 TIL Fabio Lanzoni once killed a goose with his face while riding a roller coaster
LQvA9 TIL that the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip, who set off the chain of events in the July Crisis and eventually the outbreak of WWI, and some of his accomplices, is buried at a mausoleum called "Heroes Chapel".