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TIL Johnny Cash is the voice of Space Coyote in the Simpsons peyote episode

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D1GXv TIL a viking grave of a woman warrior was dug up, and contrast to the skeletal evidence, it was assumed to be male due to the weapons in the grave. Even after DNA testing proved she was female, claims were then tried to be made that the bones got mixed up.
4k8Zw TIL that between June 7–11, 1944, one in every five Canadian soldiers who were killed in action were murdered after surrendering, in a series of executions called the Normandy Massacres
gMKeL TIL Leigh Mercer, a mathematician and writer, created an equation that, when spoken aloud, was a limerick. "A dozen, a gross, and a score/Plus three times the square root of four/Divided by seven/Plus five times eleven/Is nine squared and not a bit more."
OG8Zg TIL that the oldest known place name sign is over 5,000 years old and marks the 'Domain of the Scorpion King Horus'
Pelw TIL if the bombs in the cafeteria of Columbine High School had exploded, they would have killed 488 students.