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TIL Chris Kattan broke his neck in 2001 while doing a sketch on Saturday Night Live

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gMVy9 TIL about Basil II. He is said to have captured 15,000 prisoners and fully blinded 99 of every 100 men, leaving one one-eyed man in each cohort to lead the rest back to their ruler. The king of Bulgaria was struck down by the sight of his blinded army and died two days later after suffering a stroke
awmb TIL that using “Biquadric Finger Counting” you can count to 12 on one hand and 144 on both.
KOklJ TIL McDonald's is the largest toy distributor in the world
OBEe TIL: The United States has never gone more than 33 consecutive years without a war
GYlQG TIL in 2001, Honda prepared to release a car called the Fit, or in European markets, 'Fitta', unaware that in Swedish, the word translates to a vulgar term for a vagina. The slogan would have been, 'The all-new Fitta, small on the outside, big on the inside.' It was renamed the Jazz before release