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TIL that even though the Hindenburg was inflated with 7 million cubic feet of highly flammable hydrogen gas, it had a smoking room

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oBwXL Til: Norwegian National Law of 1274 had prohibitions against consorting with trolls.
wyEE TIL that the quartermaster held almost as much power on a pirate vessel as the captain. The quartermaster could veto the captain’s decisions outside of combat and was the officer chiefly in charge of discipline.
dLxB TIL Slaughterhouse workers are more likely to be violent, and it is believed this is because they have become desensitized to suffering
WkXEd TIL of the Basus war, a 40 year conflict between two cousin tribes during late antiquity in Arabia over the killing of a camel.
Ym9P TIL that during the famous Chernobyl Disaster only 31 people actually died at the event. Most of the deaths happened later as a result of the radiation.