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TIL George II of GB died alone sitting on his toilet after drinking hot chocolate, but he lived longer than any of his predecessors

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78gGX TIL in Japan 7/11 operates banks
E0P0 TIL During the Mongols sack of Baghdad they destroyed the fabled House of Wisdom and threw so many books into the Tigris that it ran black from the ink
b6ky7 TIL that about 30 scientists and staff of the Pavlovsk Experimental Station starved to death guarding the institute's edible seeds and plants during the siege of Leningrad
9wQoX TIL about the history of the Enigma machine, a cryptographic device used by the German military during World War II.
dD9R8 TIL there is an extremely rare condition, 'demon face syndrome,' in which people to see faces as distorted, horrific, drooped, or stretched. “It’s like staring at demons. Imagine waking up one morning and suddenly everybody in the world looks like a creature in a horror movie.”