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TIL from Anglo Saxon times up to 1823 suicides in England were buried at crossroads with a stake through their hearts.

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Lkllp TIL that in 1945, "misuse of the new toilet" aboard German sub U-1206 flooded the boat and caused it to sink
AD1ex TIL in West Papua, Indonesia, remote tribal groups still engage in combat with one another using bows and arrows.
Mex1a TIL In 1980, Punk Rock band Dead Kennedys was invited to play at an awards show to give the event "new wave credibility". Seconds into their set, they stopped to perform 'Pull My Strings', a song written specifically to take the piss out of the music execs in the room. They never played it again.
gMVX7 TIL about segregation academies, private schools founded in the US after Brown v. BoE to preserve segregation. They persist, segregated to this day, many segregation academies have student bodies that are >84% white in school districts where the student body is as little as <10% white.
5VgjD TIL that no one in ACDC knew how to play the bagpipes when they recorded "It's a Long Way to the Top". Bon Scott had to teach himself enough to record the song.