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VBAWm TIL that the US Coast Guard uses a captured Nazi German sailboat to train its cadets
7rWjZ TIL that Robert Liston -A pioneering Scottish surgeon- known as "the fastest knife in the West End" Amputated A leg in two and a half minutes, but in his enthusiasm the patient's testicles as well.
BgmOk TIL that in AD 70, Roman emperor Vespasian levied a tax on urine and sent agents to public urinals to collect it. When his son (who opposed the tax), asked him whether the coins he collected this way smelled bad, he famously replied "money does not stink".
wob6 TIL A “devil worm” has been discovered miles under the Earth—the deepest-living animal ever found, a new study says.
kJjm5 TIL After the brutal sack of Rome by the imperial mercenaries in 1527, Pope Clement VII was forced to pay 400,000 ducats in exchange for his life. Despite the ransom, he was imprisoned in Castel Sant'Angelo, where he remained for 6 months before he managed to escape the prison dressed as a peddler