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TIL Gandalfs stand at Minas Tirith in The Lord of The Rings books was based on a real bishop who mounted a hopeless defense against the Magyars until the emperor came to relieve him with an army of heavy knights.

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J1LlQ TIL 2024 is the year the US Dept of Health and Human Services banned hospitals from performing non-consensual breast, pelvic, prostate, and rectal exams for “educational and training purposes” by medical students and practitioners on patients under anesthesia.
loG8B TIL that CT body scans expose the patient to the same amount of radiation as that experienced within a mile and a half of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
AN6rB TIL The initials GTT ("Gone to Texas") came into use in the first half of the nineteenth century, when Texas had the reputation for producing and harboring outlaws. The letters were often chalked on the doors of houses in the Southern states to tell where the occupants had gone.
p8nZ4 TIL That Asbestos was not completely banned in the United States, and can still be legally used
a8DVo TIL that honeyguide birds deliberately lead humans to beehives so that they will harvest the honey and kill or disperse the adult bees, leaving grubs and edible beeswax for the birds.