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TIL when Mark, a Texan plumber, traded in his F150 in 2013, the dealership asked him not to remove the decals. Somehow the truck made it to the hands of Islamic militants, and Mark's truck with his decals appeared in propaganda videos. In one day, Mark received over 1000 calls and death threats.

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lonoA TIL Princess Olga of Kiev (a saint in the Catholic Church) was courted by the same tribe that killed her husband & proceeded to bury the tribe's suiters alive, burned the tribe's best warriors alive, slaughtered around 5,000 tribesmen during a celebration and burned their capital to the ground.
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5YXQR TIL of the song written across a subject's bum in Hieronymous Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, which the academic Amelia Hamrick transcribed and dubbed as "The 500-Year Old Butt Song from Hell"