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4XL6J TIL Fleetwood Mac's 'Rhiannon' (about a Welsh witch) and 'Angel' were based on the Mabinogion. They were the earliest prose stories in Britain (12th - 13th centuries) and were written in Welsh.
ejpE TIL for years a young girl in Seattle has been feeding the crows by her home. And in return the crows have been bringing her little trinkets as gifts
Z8G7p TIL of Dax Cowart, a Vietnam vet who suffered devastating burns after a gas explosion in the 1970s, and who endured 14 months of agonizing treatment that he did not want. He survived, married, went to law school and continued to argue that his doctors should have allowed him to die.
5YVBP TIL that there are about three million shipwrecks lying on the ocean floor.
XEpm6 TIL 1 gram of uranium 235 has 19,870,900,000 calories and would take over 50 million hours of cycling to burn off.