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TIL what a Muntjac is: the size of a Labrador and barks like a dog, yet has fangs like a snake and doesn't eat meat

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P7Vn TIL that Joan of Arc was (technically) condemned to death for cross-dressing. The Church made her pledge to no longer wear men’s clothing, but her jailers only let her have men’s clothing to wear; breaking her pledge was defined as heresy, giving the Inquisition its excuse to burn her
5Yam8 TIL George Washington's "Prayer at Valley Forge" never happened as he was not particularly religious.
e0ang TIL According to Josephus (80 AD), a Roman soldier lifted his robe, showed his bare ass to an audience of Jews and farted. This caused a riot. Roman leader Cumunus called in reinforcements. Up to 10,000 people died.
5VKKP TIL that in 1989, a sudden invasion of medflies hit California. This invasion cost between 60 and 120 million USD in eradication efforts. A group called “The Breeders” claimed it was a deliberate attack by themselves in response to the governments decades long Malathion aerial sprays.
OgQY TIL Hitler had a bunker in the hills of Los Angeles built by American fascists.