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TIL the ancient Romans built statues of Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and almost conquered the city, in Rome itself to advertise their defeat of such a worthy adversary

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5YdBB TIL shepherds in Gascony, France traditionally wore stilts called tchangues (“big legs”) that allowed them to walk rapidly on marshy ground.
JYeBv TIL apples underwent DNA testing and it was discovered that they are actually native to Kazakhstan. The common ancestor of modern apples still grows there.
kOZk5 TIL of Stubbins Ffirth who attempted to prove that Yellow Fever wasn't contagious by smearing vomit, blood, saliva, and urine from patients in open wounds on his arms. While he never got sick, it later emerged that the samples he used had come from late-stage patients who were no longer contagious
JYvBV TIL a century after the bloody and violent Hatfield–McCoy feud in West Virginia/Kentucky, the two families faced off again on the game show "Family Fued" in 1979. The teams received a mannequin for every match they won as the producers thought it would be funny to “litter the stage with bodies”.
xV0v5 TIL that in the early days of rock and roll, country music was often non-derisively referred to as "hillbilly" music. After country artists incorporated rock techniques into their own style, they created a new combination of rock and hillbilly that came to be called Rockabilly.