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TIL Princess Diana was a self-mutilator. She publicly admitted throwing herself down stairs whilst pregnant and cutting herself with razors, penknives, and other kitchen tools because of her torment over her marriage relationship.

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WkyXX TIL that an individual red knot bird, tagged as B-95, has flown the distance to the moon and halfway back over his lifetime.
r5Q1 TIL Janet Leigh, star of Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’, was so traumatized upon first viewing of the infamous shower scene in which she was stabbed to death, that she refused to take a shower ever again IRL and only took baths.
9w5YM TIL that Sologamy is marriage by a person to themself. It revolves around the idea of finding joy and fulfillment in life without the need for a partner.
w4K6 TIL: Sigurd ‘The Mighty’ recieved a great case of karma. Sigurd challenged Máel Brigte 'The Tusk’, to a 40-man-a-side battle. Treacherously, Sigurd brought 80 men, and The Tusk was beheaded. Sigurd tied the head to his horse but The Tusks buckteeth scratched Sigurd’s leg and he died from infection.
neVPG TIL that in 89 BC Roman soldiers have reportedly captured a satyr (a mythical creature) while at war in Greece. They’ve brought it to their general Sulla for interrogation, but it only spoke in something like a cross between the neighing of a horse and the bleating of a goat.