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TIL that mistletow is actually a parasitic plant that often kills trees by consuming it's nutrients.

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dDrRQ TIL that a married women keeping a male companion, maybe even for sexual favours, was a common practice in Medieval Italy. These men were called 'cicisbei'
p8bL4 TIL of Japanese General and Poet, Nogi Maresuke, who took Port Arthur twice - from China (1894) and Russian (1904), sought permission from the emperor to kill himself as felt he lost too many soldiers in battle, was refused, so waited eight years and committed suicide right after the emperor died.
aw6WL TIL Leonardo DiCaprio’s haircut from Titanic was outlawed by the Taliban
D1RpP TIL that in 1998, after analyzing the United States' real estate cycle, Georgist economist Fred Foldvary correctly predicted that there would be a recession-causing crash in the housing market in 2008.
VBd6m TIL of Lord George Gordon, who was a British nobleman and politician in 18th century England, who led a mob of Protestants in a riot against Catholic businesses and property in London. In later life, he gained public attention from his conversion to Judaism and was nicknamed "The Birmingham Moses"