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TIL archaeologists discovered an "extremely rare" complete 14th-century gauntlet, on the grounds of Kyburg Castle in Switzerland, that's "remarkably well-preserved."

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VJy4 TIL Adolf Eichmann, a major organiser of the Holocaust, requested an Israeli wine as part of his last meal.
R7w98 TIL at Vancouver Island a male orca and its mother ambushed another mother orca and her calf, for the purpose of infanticide and to mate with it's mother once nursing was no longer needed. The male got ahold of the calf and drowned it, while his mother blocked the calfs mother from rescuing the calf
KOB49 TIL that the Walther PPK, the firearm famously used by James Bond, was the same used by Adolf Hitler to commit suicide
nP7 TIL the character of Peter Pan was based off of the author of the books’ older brother who died in an ice skating accident the day before his 14th birthday; and thus always remained a young boy in the eyes of his family.
4XoRg TIL about Ligertown, an incident in Idaho where about 50 sheriff’s deputies, SWAT teams, Fish and Game officers and Idaho State troopers killed 15 lions whose escape from a chicken wire-enclosed game compound for lions, tigers and crossbred "ligers″ forced parents to keep their children indoors.