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TIL there was a lunar eclipse during the Siege of Constantinople in May 1453

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xBnw TIL Asimov’s concept of “psychohistory” (predicting the course of history using statistical mathematics) is now a real field of study called “cliodynamics”.
Wkn0B TIL Ancient Egyptians were notorious for their subversive political humor and the Romans banned Egyptian advocates from law because all of their joking disrupted the sanctity of the courts.
mxpYR TIL the German submarine U-530 surrendered to the Argentine Navy on 10 July 1945 at Mar del Plata, an Argentine reporter claimed that he had seen a police report to the effect that the submarine was transporting a officer and a civilian who might have been Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in disguise.
kOrw4 TIL there is an island in the pacific called Yap that uses circular stones as currency. The stones are too large to move so the ownership of the stones is passed by word of mouth to transact business. The location of the stone is irrelevant even in the case of one lost on the bottom of the sea
G9pN TIL people who are starved appear to have a large abdomen due to water retention as a result of protein deficiency