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TIL in The Walking Dead it’s only been slightly over a year and a half since the outbreak, despite airing for nearly 5 years.

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KOmV9 TIL about Calcio Fiorentino - A 27 on 27 sport fusing football, rugby, and literal fighting
VMK1Z TIL until 1929, less than 100 years ago, man didn't know there were other galaxies outside of the Milky Way. Edwin Hubble and his "computer", a woman named Henrietta Leavitt calculated stars called cepheids could accurately measure long distances, proving the Andromeda "nebula" was a separate galaxy
6waZ TIL falcons sometimes become sexually imprinted on humans. In order to bred them, the breeder lets the male bird copulate with his head while wearing a special hat with pockets to catch the semen.
RpGj TIL that a Russian family took a few possessions/seeds, fled into the forest as political refugees and were cut off from all human contact for 40 years until they were discovered by a group of geologists who accidentally saw their settlement from a helicopter.
jlvR TIL Pedro, the son of King Afonso IV of Portugal, was forbidden by the king to marry the woman he loved. King Afonso had her murdered to keep them apart. When Pedro became king, he hunted down her assassins and had their hearts torn out, symbolic of what they had done to him