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TIL a woman is raped in India every 20 minutes

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grwg8 TIL that seventy-nine ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. Mike, as the bird became known, survived for 18 months without its head and became famous.
j6YpX TIL Patrick Sherry of the band Bad Beat Revue is the first confirmed person to die from stage diving.
nW1BB TIL that the "dissolution of the monasteries", decreed by King Henry VIII of England from 1536 to 1541, was preceded by the kings of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway seizing monasterial assets. This included the seizure of horses at Esrum Abbey, which led to the creation of the Frederiksborger horse.
a8MBZ TIL about the Tartarian Empire theory, which posits that Tartary– an archaic European phrase for Asia– was actually an advanced lost civilization that was wiped out via global "mud floods." Historical architecture across the world is claimed to represent remnants of the empire.
rRn54 TIL that in model migration Asians crossed Beringia land bridge to the Americas about 16000 years ago, and you can still find traces on Santa rosa island (CA)