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TIL Freud smoked about 20 cigars a day and was not convinced that cigars were linked to his heart problems. He eventually got oral cancer, suffered attacks of “tobacco angina”, or heart palpitations, whenever he smoked, and died with removed jaw

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PYOXV TIL that the King of Prussia had a personal army of 3000 tall men and admitted, "The most beautiful girl or woman in the world would be a matter of indifference to me, but tall soldiers—they are my weakness"
EAZd TIL that to decide who would become the monarch of the Persian Empire (44% of world population), six nobles decided on a test. They were to gather outside the palace, mounted on their horses at sunrise, and the man whose horse neighed first in recognition of the rising sun would become king.
8eN8 TIL The US Marine Corps is currently working on Project Hot Eagle, a program that when finished, may be able to place squads of Marines anywhere on the planet in two hour’s notice, similar to that of the Halo series’ ODSTs.
1akp4 TIL on visitng Kiev after WW2, John Steinbeck wrote: "If the United States were completely destroyed from New York to Kansas, we would have about the area of destruction Ukraine has. If six million people were killed, not counting soldiers,... you would have an idea of the casualties of Ukraine."
5YPQ9 TIL that some 430,000 years ago, high in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain, a lethal assault was committed. The victim, a young adult Neanderthal, received two blows to the head, just above the left eye.