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TIL that Morgana Le Fay, who is most commonly known as a dark sorceress and the archnemesis of Merlin, was instead depicted in the earliest Arthurian lore as a kind and benevolent witch

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aw68A TIL about John Sedgwick a US general who asked his men during a battle "Why are you ducking? They couldn't hit an elephant from this distance." Sedgwick was shot under the left eye by an enemy sharpshooter as he finished the sentence.
xjPk TIL The Author of the study that first claimed vaccines cause autism had his medical license stripped after the findings were redacted due to an elaborate fraud.
0w4NA TIL Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard chose his son Quentin to succeed him after his eldest son quit the church. Quentin, who wanted to be a pilot and was gay (against doctrine), committed suicide. When his father discovered this, he shouted "That stupid fucking kid! Look what he's done to me!"
e0OE6 TIL that Big Bird escaped death from the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion
GrLj TIL that cab drivers in London have much larger hippocampi, which is the brain region responsible for the formation of new memories, than other people.