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TIL knights were actually more useful in raiding and guerrilla warfare than open field battles. They weren't the tanks of medieval times, but the special forces.

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ep6oJ TIL that before he was an actor, Peter Dinklage was in a punk-funk-rap group called Whizzy. While playing at the famed CBGB nightclub, he was accidentally kneed in the face so hard that he started bleeding on stage and now has a scar running from his neck to his eyebrow.
0wWAA TIL that the stolen body of U.S. politician John Scott Harrison was discovered at the Ohio Medical College by his son and nephew, who were there looking for the body of their cousin whose grave robbery had been discovered in the cemetery the day before... at John Scott Harrison's burial.
v1yr7 TIL that in Ancient Greece, the famed slingshot mercenaries from Rhodes would often carve taunting messages into their rock projectiles, much like those written on modern-day bombs.
0wxlL TIL The bacteria that is responsible for the smell of blue cheese is the same one that is responsible for foot and other human body odours.
gjn7 TIL President Reagan’s Surgeon General outraged fellow conservatives with his AIDS report, which called for sex ed to start in 3rd grade and explained in plain language how HIV can/not be spread. The deeply religious Presbyterian refused to alter the report or make it more morally judgmental.