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TIL that the little "light" dots that sometimes fly around in your vision are called "blue-sky sprites" and its part of a phenomenon called "Blue Field Entopic Phenomenon" where white blood cells are moving in the capillaries in-front of your retina.

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kJ9V7 TIL In 1599, Beatrice Cenci and her siblings killed their wealthy father who was sexually and physically abusive. The people of Rome overwhelmingly supported Beatrice, but she and her siblings faced a brutal public execution. Her 12 year old brother was forced to watch and then sent to the galleys
Z0AY TIL when Sitting Bull was killed in a gunfight by agents attempting to arrest him, His Horse-which was gifted to him by Buffalo Bill - heard gunshots and began performing its Wild West Routine, getting on its haunches and dancing. It was believed that the slain chief’s spirit had entered his horse.
E1b4W til that president mckinely was shot and killed a few weeks before he was set to try out one of the world's first bullet proof vests, which would've stopped the bullet that killed him
5YDmD TIL of The Irish Sweepstakes, est. 1930, which sold lottery tickets internationally to fund Irish hospitals, and prizes won via horse races. The US, where gambling was illegal at the time, bought the most tickets.
9wpxr TIL about Ettore Majorana, a brilliant young physicist who vanished without a trace in 1938. He was responsible for many discoveries in particle physics but never published them, leading others to get the credit.