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TIL after Olga of Kiev’s husband got murdered, she went after the culprits and not only obliterated the whole family through ruse and deceit, but also destroyed their city. With pigeons.

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oB9lo TIL Ines Ramirez Perez is the only woman to successfully do a self C-section. Alone in her house with no medical facility near Perez took several swigs of hard liqour and cut into herself using a 6-inch blade.
mwOy TIL that in 1999 an Iraqi refugee fled to Australia and lived off their welfare system. Years later after he became successful, he walked into the local welfare office and tried to pay back every cent with an $18,000 check.
6BA8 TIL there was a song written in the 1630s that was performed only in the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican kept the composition of the piece secret for 150 years until the 14-year-old Mozart listened to the piece 2 times, transcribed it from memory, and produced the first unauthorized copy of the song.
4bK5 TIL there is an island so densley populated with snakes the Brazilian Navy had it quarantined and a biologist said when on the island “you are never more than 3 feet from death.” That island is called Snake Island.
bMXE TIL in 1992, a team of game developers used a white puffball as a placeholder graphic while they designed their game’s protagonist. They grew fond of the puffball, and decided to keep him rather than replace him with a real character. He became the iconic character Kirby.