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TIL William Shatner made Richard Simmons storm off the stage of the Today Show when he asked “Is that what you think straight guys are?”

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8eJ5b TIL the Goths besieging Constantinople in 378 AD were left stunned when one of the defenders stormed out of the city completely naked, decapitated one of the attackers and proceeded to drink the blood from his neck
nenB9 TIL that, after their bomber crashed in Japan in 1945, eight American Airmen were taken to Kyushu University Medical School and dissected alive.
5VoAR TIL that 3.6% of all current cancer cases worldwide are attributable to drinking alcohol
4XxRR TIL Nikola Tesla's childhood cat, Macak, played a role in his famous contribution to science. Reflecting upon the experience of static electricity after he stroked his cat, he wrote, "Is Nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back? Day after day I have asked myself, what is electricity?"
0nWA TIL that in World War One, on the Russian front, wounded soldiers were often eaten alive by wolves