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TIL that cows have “best friends” and get stressed when separated

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D1P9V TIL that during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, many black citizens, widely believed to be immune to the disease, volunteered to deal with the dead and dying as white citizens fled the city. The immunity seems to have not actually existed, and blacks died at the same rates as whites.
XEjNQ TIL, in 451 AD, Western Europeans kicked out Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, and that battle was worthy of the most epic ones in Game of Thrones or the Lord of the Rings
awbAJ TIL the connection between Halo franchise and the production of District 9
8e1kG TIL Between 2012 and 2013, over 100 people have self-immolated in Tibet.
mL1E TIL A Frenchwoman, Jeanne de Clisson, became a pirate in the 1300’s for revenge after her husband was beheaded. Selling her lands to buy 3 ships, they were painted black with red sails. Hunting French ships, when she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.