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6EJyl TIL of the devastation of Sandby Borg. It was the scene of a massacre in the late 5th century AD. The victims of the massacre were never buried but are found lying as they fell, inside the houses and scattered on the streets of the fort. The site was never occupied again.
X0Zb8 TIL: Spent nuclear fuel has hope of being recycled in the United States again
Geng TIL in 1996 Brian Zembic agreed to receive breast implants and keep them for one year in return for US$100,000. He won the bet but became accustomed to the breasts and did not have them removed.
dD0O7 TIL a 36-year-old man with a super swollen stomach, who had had trouble breathing, went to the ER only to discover that the twin he had absorbed in utero was still living in his abdomen
OoaNR TIL about Grigori Perelman the mathematician who solved the Poincare Conjecture one of the 7-millennium problems and denied the million dollar prize money as well as the fields medal. Rest of the 6 still remain unsolved.