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TIL of the Erfurt Latrine Disaster. During a meeting called by Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, the second floor of the cathedral collapsed. 60 German nobles died when they fell through the first floor into the latrine cesspit below. Many died drowning in liquid excrement.

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vP5EL TIL that in 1972 Scottish professional football club Dundee United played a series of friendly games in Nigeria in which they only managed to win one of them. The club's performances shocked the locals so much that "Dundee United" or just "Dundee" is now used as slang to mean "idiot" in Nigeria
neX5G Til that Harvard student and seminarian Jonathan Daniels traveled to the south to aid the civil rights movement. He was walking with a black girl when a deputy pointed his shotgun at her. Daniels jumped in front of her, sacrificing his life so that she could live.
VB5K8 TIL a 240 acre island off the coast of Scotland supplies half the world's curling stones. (Which are actual stones)
oRZ0E TIL: British-based firm Reckitt Benckiser admitted in 2016 that it sold a humidifier disinfectant that killed about 100 people in South Korea. They withdrew their product after South Korean authorities suggested a link between chemicals to sterilise humidifiers and lung conditions in 2011.
MZm8 TIL that a bulbous bow allows a ship to move faster by cancelling waves with its own waves