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0wJAN TIL The Honas Wagner card; the most expensive baseball card in the world is so rare because it was sold by the 'American Tobacco Company'. Wagner was a non smoker and he threatened to seek legal action against ATC so they stopped producing it.
xVm11 TIL that Atilla the Hun died of a nosebleed. On his wedding night, he drank heavily and passed out in his bed. He then had a severe nosebleed and choked to death on his own blood.
gMKQW TIL Parisians used to hang out in the morgue situated near the Norte Dame. The macabre attraction lured as much as 40.000 visitors per day.
PkDG TIL that in 539BC, Persian King Cyrus the Great issued the first ever decree on human rights. He freed slaves, declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion, and established racial equality.
dDR47 TIL The tiny island nation of Tuvalu consists of nine islands. Interestingly, "Tuvalu" means "eight standing together" in Tuvaluan. This is due to the fact that only eight of the islands were populated before the Europeans "discovered" the archipelago.