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TIL Cat Stevens wrote The First Cut Is The Deepest

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VBBxm TIL Boris I Christianized Bulgaria and retired as a monk. When his son Vladimir attempted a pagan revival, Boris came out of retirement, blinded him, and had his other son Simeon made ruler instead. Boris returned to the monastery after threatening Simeon with the same fate if he betrayed the faith
gMweL TIL about Marco Bragadin gruesomely killed, first dragged around with sacks of stone on his back; then tied to a chair and hoisted up a Turkish flagship, then tied to a column and flayed alive, then his skin was stuffed and redressed in his military clothes, then rode on an ox around town
JEN8 TIL that rapper DMX impersonated a federal agent and broke through a gate in order to attempt to steal a car from JFK Airport during a coke binge.
BrA5d TIL the first submarine attack on a ship occurred in 1864, when the CSS Hunley sank the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic using a spar torpedo, a primitive form of torpedo that was, in essence, a bomb on the end of a stick encased in a motor boat.
m5WP TIL: The first item sold on ebay was a broken laser pointer, and when asked in an email by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar if he was aware that the laser pointer was broken, the buyer replied that “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers.”