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TIL a WoW troll named Angwe camped a bottleneck that was the only route to some key mid-level areas. He blocked the path by killing everyone who passed essentially every hour of every day for months.

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Oowg7 “An untrained person has around five litres of blood, typically around 50 - 75ml per kilo — five to seven per cent — of body mass. A world-class endurance athlete can have two or three litres more in total, and as much as 150ml per kilo — 15 per cent — of body mass."
ggVA TIL: After the battle of Waterloo in 1815, scavengers pulled so many teeth from the 50,000 dead soldiers, they caused the price of false teeth to fall in Britain to an affordable rate for the middle class.
PYx8J TIL that only 9 of the top 30 100m sprint times weren't run by athletes associated with doping. All 9 were run by Usain Bolt.
Grp1 TIL: The Nazis placed a $5,000 bounty on Einstein’s head.
M7jYK TIL that actor Tom Arnold’s sister got married at age 14, with her mother’s permission, to a 23-year old. She later went on to run one of the largest meth operations in the Midwest until her arrest in 1989.