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TIL when Mongols defeated the Poles at the battle of Legnica, they beheaded him and paraded his head. His wife recognized his mutilated body by his eleventh toe.

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wLEG7 TIL that after we die and our heart stops beating and our body moving our brain still works and we may even be conscious enough to hear our own death announced by doctors.
M71ym TIL about the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre (21 people killed and 19 more injured in a 77-minute span by James Huberty)
RQxa TIL lawmakers got sick after drinking raw milk–which they drank to celebrate passing a law legalizing raw milk as safe for human consumption. Naturally, instead of seeing it for what it was (poetic justice), they refused to blame the raw milk.
64Nm TIL that Albert Einstein was an avid supporter of civil rights and called racism “a disease of white people.”
GaP1 TIL Shakespeare coined over 45 common phrases such as “Knock knock! Who’s there?” “Good Riddance,” “Heart of Gold,” “Full Circle,” “Forever and a day,” “Dead as a doornail,” and many others not listed in this article.