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TIL: “Good-bye” is a contraction of “God be with ye”

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4kVoN TIL about The Battle of Stamford bridge. Where a lone Viking warrior attempted to hold off an army of nearly 15,000 men. The unnamed viking was able to take down 40 men before falling.
wDb1 TIL, after hitting her head as a toddler, a woman claimed to have unlocked memories from a past life as a priestess in Ancient Egypt. She then went on to made great contributions to Egyptology, even successfully predicting the locations of paintings in complete darkness.
ANGrw TIL the night before he drove in the Italian Grand Prix of 1961, Wolfgang von Trips, speaking about mortality, told a journalist “It could happen tomorrow. That’s the thing about this business, you never know.” In the race the next day, he died in an accident that also killed 15 spectators.
8aDRV TIL much of activist Hellen Keller's archived material, including first editions of her books and photos of her with every living President that served during her lifetime, was lost in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center
BNAd TIL on November 5, 1995, a deranged man entered the home of the Canadian Prime Minister with the intention of assassinating him. He was thwarted in his attempt when the wife of the Prime Minister simply locked their bedroom door.