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TIL William the Conqueror (aka William The Bastard) was denied a marriage proposal by Matilda of Flanders who felt marrying a bastard was below her. He won her heart by reading the response and immediately riding 250+ miles from Normandy to Bruges to grab her by the hair and throw her in the mud.

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rNlZo TIL the Avianca airplane crash of 1990 was caused in part due to the pilots not declaring a fuel emergency to the aircraft controllers. They never actually use the word "emergency," so they flew around in holding patterns and eventually ran out of fuel
yG9X TIL when outhouses were prevalent, the most common body parts to be bitten by a spider were the genitals and buttocks.
PYDAL TIL: 1,400 Filipinos defeated 40,000 chinese communists on the battle of Yultong during the Korean war, 1951. Leaving a lethal blow against the Chinese army.
yQ64X TIL that a special vending machine was created to see whether crows are smart enough to use it. They are.
9YLOm TIL a bezoar is a round, solid mass of indigestible material such as calcium and magnesium phosphate that accumulates in your digestive tract. A 2013 review presented 46 patients treated with Coca-Cola for bezoars. A total of 91.3% of patients had complete resolution after treatment with Coca-Cola.