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TIL the brutal ruler Vlad the Impaler saved thousands of lives, on multiple occasions. He prevented huge battles by challenging the enemy general to a one-on-one duel to the death.

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jYkR TIL: Elvis Presley was 24 years old when he started seeing 14 year old Priscilla.
QNGpp TIL A young man pinched his nose and clamped his mouth shut to hold in a forceful sneeze and ended up barely able to speak or swallow, with considerable pain. Air bubbles reached into the deep tissue and muscles of his chest and it took seven days for him to recover in hospital
grxEW TIL Borat's first movie was banned in Kazakhstan but when the second was released they made a tourism campaign around "Very Nice!"
7ZlO TIL Lake Natron is so alkaline that any animals that die in it are turned into calcified statues
BgrWD TIL Baron Friedrich von Steuben was known for his bravery and the discipline and grit he brought to the American troops during The Revolutionary War, was openly gay