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TIL: In 1666, the plague-infested village of Eyam quarantined itself inside a marked circle for 14 months. Neighboring communities left food at the edge of the circle in exchange for disinfected coins. 80% of the people died, but no one crossed the circle.

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Ln8r TIL that in 2010 a GCHQ employee’s decomposing corpse was found locked inside a duffle bag placed in the bathtub of a London flat. A re-investigation by the Metropolitan Police concluded that his death was “probably an accident”
XEKVP TIL of the crazy story of the colonial Australian Judge who refused to acknowledge the validity of any colonial law that contradicted British Law. Eventually he was removed from office and the British had to pass a law to specifically say that colonial laws were valid.
6BWQ TIL Black American soldiers had to sit behind Nazi POWs at concerts.
JY4xQ TIL the heir apparent of Ottoman Empire fought in WW2 and participated in the Normandy landings as an American soldier.
oRRAL TIL of Lysistrata, an Ancient Greek Comedy where the women withheld sex to end a war.