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TIL Medieval art depicted characters dying or being killed with unusually calm expressions because it was a common belief that that such a response to death was Christlike, as Jesus did not panic on the cross.

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xVnww TIL that Blind Willie Johnson's song 'Dark was the night, cold was the ground' was selected by NASA for their Voyager probe to represent the human emotion of loneliness to whatever or whoever finds the spacecraft in outer space.
4koEg TIL that in 1986, a French woman invested several months of her time to gain the necessary qualifications to operate a helicopter. She then proceeded to rent one, fly it over a prison, and successfully extract her husband, a convicted bank robber, from the prison's roof.
ADWVn TIL during his time as a POW, Alexis Casdagli made numerous cross-stitches. One of them was so good that the Germans displayed them in his POW camp for everyone to see, unaware of a secret message stitched into his handiwork. The message, in Morse code, reads "God save the King" and "Fuck Hitler"
x6j0o TIL HMS Victory, launched in 1765, is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission. With 245 years of service as of 2023, she is currently the flagship of the First Sea Lord the Royal Navy.
d987 TIL that a Dutch warship was disguised as a tropical island during WWII to escape detection by the Japanese. It was the only ship of its class to survive.