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TIL: About the West European tradition of ‘Telling the bees’

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8eYR8 TIL about Tyrone Jones, a four times all-star Canadian football player who was diagnosed with brain cancer after he blew a tooth out of his nose. He had an inoperable brain teratoma and died 3 years after the diagnosis at the age of 46.
GRwN TIL King John of Bohemia was blind, and fought and eventually died in battle where he apparently just flailed his sword around like a mad man. He was reported to have said. “Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs [from a fight]!”
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