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TIL that Mongols used Wicker shields which means the cuisine legend of “mongols grilling meat on their shields” has been debunked by this SCA article.

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gnE7 TIL When the founders of Google went to Burning Man in 1998, they incorporated a stick figure into the Google logo before they left. This was the first Google Doodle.
jDGN TIL when the Confederate army surrendered in 1865, a Union cannonade was fired in celebration but General Grant ordered it to stop saying “The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again.
XE1jD TIL the first Olympic fatality occurred when Francisco Lázaro tried to run a marathon covered in animal fat (it was to prevent sunburn). Before the race, he had supposedly said: "Either I win or I die."
d8wlr TIL that the grandfather of Welsh football player Harry Wilson, bet £50 when Harry was 18 months he would play for the Welsh National Team. He made £125,000 when Harry made his senior international debut at 16.
m5ax TIL a soldier who fired his gun in celebration in NYC got sentanced to 4 - 12 Years For Manslaughter after turning himself in after the stray bullet killed a mother in Queens.