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TIL of The Sawback Blade Bayonet. A German knife used in WW1 that would pull out the insides of it's victims and cause inevitable and painful death. They were recalled by the German military because British and French soldiers would torture and kill any soldiers caught with one, on principle.

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b6Jp9 TIL when the mistress of Roman Emperor Commodus found her name on a list of people Commodus wanted executed, she and a few others tried to poison him, but Commodus vomited it up, so they had his wrestling partner, who trained him for his gladiator appearances, strangle him while he was in the bath.
rNd5M TIL State-owned enterprises accounted for over 60% of China’s market capitalization in 2019 and generated 40% of China’s GDP in 2020.
gMLKL TIL that there's something called Bechdel Test which measures the representation of women in fiction, asking whether the work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man.
x6e1o TIL second-hand incense smoke can be as dangerous, or worst, as cigarette smoke.
Eg9vo TIL that Granula was the first manufactured breakfast cereal, invented by James Caleb Jackson in 1863. Not to be confused with Granola, which was later created by John Kellog, and renamed as Grape-Nuts to avoid being sued by Jackson.