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TIL that the only mention of the wicker man in the ancient times comes from Julius Caesar on his Gallic wars, and later Strabo in his Geographica

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o7jR TIL there is a game called Prison Tycoon where you try to make a profitable prison.
mVGE TIL in 1809, a woman diagnosed with an ovarian tumor rode horseback 60 miles to try to have the tumor removed, an operation that had never been performed, knowing that most Doctors thought the procedure would kill her. After the 22.5 pound tumor was extracted, she lived another 32 years.
XEl8X TIL, the city of Kazan is not only one of the oldest cities in Russia, but in Eastern Europe as well. It’s about 150 years older than Moscow. Officially founded in 1005, and became part of the largest Mongol-Tatar empire in the world, the Golden Horde, in the 13th century.
4kR4J TIL about Tammie Jo Shults, one of the first female fighter pilots to serve in the United States Navy. On April 17, 2018, Shults successfully landed Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 after an uncontained engine failure ruptured a hole in the aircraft midflight.
GAryJ TIL in 2011, Sony accidentally tweeted out the jailbreak code for the PlayStation 3 using the account for their fictional spokesperson, Kevin Butler.