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TIL the Jacobite Earl of Nithsdale was sentenced to the axe. His wife paid a final visit to the Tower of London, accompanied by two maids. They dressed him in women's clothes, a headdress and caked his face in make-up to hide his long beard. The transvestite Lord then simply walked out of his cell

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5LRn TIL that Saladin, the fabled hero of the Islamic world who repelled the attacks of European invaders during the Crusades and left a monumental mark on the history of the Middle East was, in fact, a Kurd.
d8K5E TIL that Oskar Schindler died broke, having spent his entire fortune (equivalent to $14 million) saving Jews from the Nazis. Of the 15 million Jews left alive today, roughly 15,000 of them owe their lives to Schindler. He is the only Nazi buried on Mount Zion.
oB8ZL TIL Terry Davis an american programmer created his own operating system “TempleOS” while diagnosed with schizophrenia and claimed to be the smartest programmer ever to live
Ono7 TIL that Einstein smoked cigarette butts picked off from the street and went out sailing when there was no wind, because it was ‘more challenging’
j6RXp TIL the Pillsbury Doughboy has a family including his wife, Poppie Fresh, their kids, Popper and Bun-Bun, Flapjack, the family dog, and Biscuit, the cat. Pillsbury sold them as dolls and various playsets in the 1970s