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TIL that britian ordered and carried out the murder of every single able bodied man between the ages of 18 and 70 in a whole province of sri lanka in 1818

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P1NAg TIL that before Muhammad Ali, the first boxer to defeat Sonny Liston was Marty Marshall. Liston found Marshall’s style amusing and laughed at him, only to get his jaw broken in return. Liston would then go the distance, losing by split decision.
j6kla TIL The Chinese Ming Dynasty deployed a heavy amount of Guns & Cannons, bombarding and smoking the entire battlefield against the Mongols, they fled without their spare Horses. According to an observer, they avoided battle several days later, "fearing that the guns had arrived again." (1414)
wLKEW TIL an estimated one in fifty people suffer from Aphantasia, a condition in which the person’s “mind eye” is blind and they can’t picture things just by thinking about them
1a594 TIL of Jane Elliott, a teacher who divided her class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed. The brown-eyed group were told they were less intelligent, the blue-eyed superior, the brown-eyed accepted their lower position and the blue-eyed became more arrogant
4XkLw TIL about Robert Carey, who took a two day horse ride to Scotland against orders on the death of Elizabeth I to inform her heir of the news so he could get himself a good job with him.