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TIL a group of Mennonite men sprayed anaesthetic through bedroom windows at night, sedating entire families so they could rape the women.

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v1jvD TIL In 1251, Henry III was given a Polar Bear by the King of Norway. It was kept in the Tower of London on a long chain so that it could swim in the Thames
Kj04 TIL: Scott Adams (Dilbert) once wore “a wig and false mustache, [and] successfully impersonated a management consultant and tricked Logitech managers into adopting a mission statement that Adams described as "so impossibly complicated that it has no real content whatsoever”.“
788eO TIL: In 1485 a perfectly preserved body of a girl was discovered along the Via Appia just outside of Rome. Condition of it was so good that it looked that the person was buried yesterday despite being 1500 years old
DQXMe TIL: "The Flintstones" were originally "The Flagstones" in their 1960 pilot film. The name was changed because the family in the "Hi & Lois" comic strip was also named Flagstone.
Y791B TIL the Summer Olympic Games featured fine arts competitions from 1912 until 1948. Artists could compete in the categories of architecture, painting, sculpture, literature and music.