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TIL During one battle, George Washington had two horses shot out from under him and four bullet holes shot through his coat. He walked away without a single injury.

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XyMj TIL In 1979, a number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of “being homosexual”, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness.
ObJ1 TIL there is a deaf rapper named ‘Signmark’ who raps using sign language.
MedZ7 TIL about the plunge for distance, a short-lived olympic swim event where competitors jumped from the edge of the pool and floated motionless as far as possible. It was criticized as "not an athletic event at all" since competitors "merely throw themselves heavily into the water and float along".
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XXKE TIL A man who survived the sinking of a ship in 1871 was finally able to overcome his fears and decided to sail again in 1911: he died in the sinking of the Titanic.