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TIL there are depictions of Medieval Knights fighting snails in ancient manuscripts and nobody knows why.

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ANDKa TIL the reason why coffee makes you poop is because caffeine activates contractions in your colon and intestinal muscles.
Y7LLZ TIL that J Bruce Ismay spent the rest of his life after The Titanic, in raising money for sailors, donating over a million pounds in today’s terms of his own money.
Py8Z TIL JFK’s sister Rosemary Kennedy, was born mentally disabled because during her birth, the doctor was not immediately available and the nurse ordered Rose Kennedy to keep her legs closed, forcing the baby’s head to stay in the birth canal for two hours…resulting in a harmful loss of oxygen.
DWoP TIL Nobuo Uematsu, the original composer of the Final Fantasy series, was voted into the top 20 of the Classic FM Hall of Fame. Higher than at least 1 Beethoven work.
Lk0jd TIL The cleaning up of WW1 battlefields is still ongoing and some estimate it will take 300-700 more years to complete. However there are also some areas which are so toxic 99% of animals and plant life cannot survive.