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TIL: about Order of Assassins (assassin's creed for gamers) a Nizari Isma'ili order that existed between 1090 and 1275 AD they were the cause of killing several Christian leaders

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d1mZ TIL to avenge the kidnapping of a group of British subjects, the British Empire mobilised 39,000 men and 40,000 work animals, traversed 400 miles of mountainous terrain, sacked the offending king’s capital, and then returned home.
w48 TIL there is a Magic: The Gathering card called “ Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental”
rNdry TIL in WW2 the British, with the help of a professional magician, tricked the Germans into thinking that a British double-agent had successfully sabotaged an airplane factory.
xVYoB TIL fans turned on Seinfeld character George Costanza twice. He was played as being a terrible person doing atrocious things, and while viewers happily went along with most of his unsavory schemes, they reviled him when he killed Susan and when he ate an eclair out of the garbage.
jjOX TIL that of all the 14,748 homicides in the US in 2010, roughly 43% of the victims were African-American, a group who only make up 13% of the population; furthermore, a majority of the victims were young black males, while the perpetrators were similarly young black males.