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TIL that human fingers don’t contain muscles. The muscles that move them are in the palm and forearm

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AD9Nn TIL Tokyo has its own superhero. He’s Mangetsu-Man, a self-made hero who’s taken up the responsibility of keeping the city clean. He wears a “full moon” head, purple bodysuit, oversized UGG boots with matching gloves, and uses a voice dictation app to hide his voice.
v1Jrx TIL that King Alexander of Greece was killed by a monkey when he attempted to break up a fight between his dog and the monkey. In the middle of breaking the fight up, he was bitten by another monkey and later died of his wounds. He was only 27.
LkrBV TIL William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke served 4 kings, beat 500 knights in combat, unhorsed the Lionheart, and saved England. His tomb effigy in Temple Church survived Luftwaffe bombing
8oaK TIL that 30,000 American draft dodgers went to Canada during the Vietnam War, while 30,000 Canadians joined the US military to fight in the Vietnam War
BBjx TIL: that when the Mongol army was withering from the 14th century bubonic plague epidemic, they decided to catapult their infected corpses over city walls before invading. This is considered one of the first acts of biological warfare