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TIL that toilet paper has been around since the 6th century and was mass produced by the 14th.

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8aLNV TIL that in September 1332 Edward Balliol, pretender to the Scottish throne, was attacked in the night by Scots rebels and narrowly escaped by riding bareback, naked from the waist down, all the way from Annan to Carlisle (about 18 miles).
VBMKp TIL during WWI, the US Army called upon elderly Confederates to teach its recruits the famous "rebel yell" so they could use it when going over the top
rMVM TIL in 1972 a pocket of uranium in Africa was found to have undergone self-sustaining nuclear fission for over 100,000 years, making it the only known naturally formed nuclear reactor.
17yX TIL that this is the song that eventually became the James Bond theme.
epr0k TIL Abraham Lincoln was a wrestler when he was young and lost just 1 match out of the 300 total that he competed in