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TIL that Qatar Airways allows you to keep your falcon in the cabin provided that there aren’t already six falcons on board.

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d8R1B TIL of the Lost Scottish Clan of Gurro in Northern Italy. The claim is that retreating Scottish Guardsmen from a defeated French Army stopped in town and recreated their ways there, which remained preserved to this day.
dvrQ TIL that after being captured by the Parthians, the richest man in the Roman world was killed by having molten gold poured into his mouth.
e0Xln Til about Scurvy, chronic vitamin C deficiency. "Bones that had previously broken rebreak. Old wounds open up. This is because one of the major effects of scurvy is that the body can no longer produce collagen, the glue of the body’s cells"
l7MgB TIL that the Roman emperor Claudius wrote a now lost book on the art of playing dice.
e0Yjk TIL of Bart the "Zombie Cat," who was accidentally buried alive after being presumed dead from a traffic accident. Bart clawed its way out of the shallow grave and was found meowing for food by a neighbour of his owner. He had surgery to remove his ruined eye and treat his broken jaw.