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TIL that They Used to Use Malaria to Treat Syphilis

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gM0BD TIL One of the most successful KGB agents of the Cold War had the codename, Fedora. He infiltrated the UN and sabotaged the US by providing false information ie. a Fedora tip.
6EMBZ TIL the Pict people were named by the Romans. They left no writings, so we don't know what they called themselves. The word 'pict' and 'picture' have the same Latin root, meaning, 'painted.' The Romans named them for the blue woad with which they painted themselves.
epnDg TIL the little loops on the back of men's dress shirts have an official name and use. They're called 'locker loops' and were earlier made on sailors' shirts so they could hang their shirts anywhere on hooks on their ship. Universities later followed to keep their button down uniforms wrinkle-free.
Z8GOD TIL King Leopold of Belgium had between 1-15 million Congolese people murdered while he exploited their area for rubber
KYGPG TIL that the people in Pompeii did not become "stone statues" by the lava flowing by, but rather encapsulated under a layer of lava and their decomposed bodies leaving a void which arceologists filled with plaster to recreate the bodies that once was there and the postures in which they died.