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TIL that people in the Mongolian Empire did not believe in washing themselves or their clothes, wearing the same clothes until they literally rotted off.

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nXRb TIL that Great Britian still owes 30 Hawker Hurricanes to Latvia. Latvia ordered and paid for them before the 2nd World War.
yJvX TIL Jimi Hendrix was once invited to play with Cream alongside Eric Clapton. In the middle of the show, Clapton walked off stage. He was found in the back shaking angrily and smoking a cigarette. When asked what was wrong, he simply replied, “You never told me he was that fucking good.”
8aOMb TIL: On July 28th, 1932, the US government deployed tanks onto the streets of Washington DC to clear the streets of veterans who were protesting to redeem their certificates early.
VBnxQ TIL that Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the Unites States during World War 2, was paralyzed from the waist down. He mostly used a wheelchair for mobility, and during public appearances he would use heavy leg braces in order to be seen standing. He suffered from a 'paralytic illness'.
9YbMp TIL that in 1938, a physicist proposed an exact number for the total number of protons in the observable universe.