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TIL Charlemagne may have been killed by his tablecloth. He liked it because he could throw it into a fire to clean it. He died of pleurisy, one of the effects of asbestos exposure.

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1la4 TIL that the concept of a zombie apocalypse is four thousand years old. In the heroic epic about him, Gilgamesh, the mythical king of Uruk spurned the advances of Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. She became enraged and threatened to “raise the dead who will outnumber the living and devour them.”
BYok TIL that the Hanwha Eagles, a South Korean baseball team, has robot fans. These robot fans are controlled by real fans who can’t attend the game. The bots can cheer, chant, and do the wave.
57D8 TIL there was an actual federal court case titled “UNITED STATES v. APPROXIMATELY 64,695 POUNDS OF SHARK FINS”
A7G7 TIL: Naturally Occurring Snow Donuts, Snowrollers, are a thing.
ANNNa TIL that Shelley Halil, the actor that played Haziz in 40-Year-Old Virgin, stabbed his girlfriend 23 times and served 8 years out of a 12 years to life prison sentence.