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TIL Joan of Arc was burned to death for “cross-dressing” in order to avoid rape by prison gaurds.

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wL01 TIL Donald Trump tried to sue an author for $5,000,000,000 (yes,billion). Reason?The author called him a millionaire instead of a billionaire.
Y70w7 TIL the most destructive single air attack in human history was the napalm bombing of Tokyo on the night of 10 March 1945 that killed around 100,000 civilians in about 3 hours
JYlj8 TIL the singer of the peanut butter jelly time song was brother in law to Snoop Dogg and died in an 11 hour stand off with the police.
4V0X TIL Half the cast of Firefly served as voice actors on Halo 3: ODST
kO4pE In Norway, there sits a literary time capsule that is slowly filling with the unread manuscripts of the world’s best authors.