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TIL there is a sport called Rollball a mixture of rollerblading/basketball/handball...

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omKK TIL - gorillas can learn more than 1000 words and may be smarter than 15% to 20% of humans based on standardized IQ tests
bbgE TIL James Barry (born 1789-1799 as Margaret Ann Bulkleychose) chose to live as a man so that he could become a surgeon. With his sex only being discovered after his death, Barry was the first qualified female British surgeon known, anticipating the next female physician by over 50 years.
xVNpg TIL about Basil II. He is said to have captured 15,000 prisoners and fully blinded 99 of every 100 men, leaving one one-eyed man in each cohort to lead the rest back to their ruler. The king of Bulgaria was struck down by the sight of his blinded army and died two days later after suffering a stroke
LQ0ev TIL In 1588, Elizabeth I of England’s Navy defeated the Spanish Armada and forced their remaining fleet to sail around England, back to Spain where many ships crashed along the rocky shores of Ireland. On Elizabeth’s orders, thousands of surviving Spaniards were massacred on the beaches of Ireland.
wGMY TIL that although the U.S. carpet bombing of Laos and Cambodia killed tens of thousands of people, it was officially denied for over 30 years