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TIL that every time an alcoholic relapses then quits again, the withdrawal symptoms get worse. It's called the kindling effect.

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6ELEY TIL that in 1720 a ship full of precious goods and sick people arrived in Marseille/France. In spite of clear signs, greedy merchands put pressure an the authorities to shorten the quarantine and not to burn the freight. More than 100.000 people died because of pestilence in the next two years.
N7JlQ TIL of the Kolyma Highway. A 1200+ mile long modern road in Russia that an estimated quarter of a million people died building. Because of permafrost, interment into the fabric of the road was deemed more practical than burying the bodies in new holes, resulting in the nickname The Road of Bones.
nepe9 TIL about the Raid on Alexandria, when 6 Italian men managed to sneak in the fortified harbour of Alexandria using manned torpedoes. They then placed charges that sank two battleships and highly damaged several others, paralyzing the British fleet in the Mediterranean for months. Early example of Sp
N7pl6 TIL that in 1828, a painter named Sarah Goodridge painted a miniature portrait of her own breasts and sent it to a man in what is probably one of the earliest cases of someone sending nudes.
16xmd TIL of the Zizhi Tongjian (completed in 1084 AD), a 294-volume chronicle of Chinese history, covering nearly 1,400 years (403 BC to 959 AD). It took 19 years to compile, and is considered one of the most ambitious works of history ever created.