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TIL The Arizona Coyotes hockey team retired #49 for Leighton Accardo, a 9-year-old cancer victim who signed a one-day contract with the team.

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eL0D TIL in the extinct Australian language Mbabaram, the word for dog is ‘dog’. This is purely a coincidence and there is no relation between the words
E1jWP TIL at least 98% of Poland's Jewish population was murdered in the Holocaust. They constituted half of the total Jewish population murdered over all.
KOydE TIL that Roman Emperor Valentinian died whilst yelling at a group of barbarians due to becoming so angry that a blood vessel in his skull burst
bbLQ TIL that during the battle of Wizna, 800 polish soldiers held off 42,000 nazi soldiers for 3 days. Once the poles ran out of bullets, their commander threw himself on a grenade instead of surrendering. The battle is referred to as the Polish Thermopylae.
rN0AM TIL many survived the Pompeii volcanic explosion and the ones that were buried had time to go home, gather their family, valuables, and religious iconography before trying to flee and being caught in a "traffic jam"