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TIL the towns of Boring, USA, Dull, Scotland, and Bland, Australia Teamed Up to Create the League of Extraordinary Communities.

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P7Vn TIL that Joan of Arc was (technically) condemned to death for cross-dressing. The Church made her pledge to no longer wear men’s clothing, but her jailers only let her have men’s clothing to wear; breaking her pledge was defined as heresy, giving the Inquisition its excuse to burn her
BgEy TIL: In a 1956 football (soccer) final, Keeper Bert Trautmann broke his neck on the pitch but continued to play for the remaining 15 minutes to see out his team’s victory. Prince Philip commented on the crooked state of Trautmann’s neck as he gave him his winner’s medal
Z8pjo TIL that Keith Caputo, lead singer of hardcore band Life Of Agony is now a woman
D19eg TIL South African mercenaries were hired in the fight against Boko Haram
xwGg TIL that until 1986, doctors did not think that babies could feel pain, and they performed open heart surgeries on infants without anesthesia.