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TIL that 10% of the Seychelles' working population are addicted to heroin

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D6Nr TIL that a “knight in shining armor” could be used as a slight since if the amor was shining he was not tested in combat.
mMPP TIL of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Roman Emperor. 563 years ago today, as Ottoman cannons breached the once-mighty Theodosian Walls of Constantinople, he donned the appearance of a common soldier and led his remaining men to one last valiant charge in the name of Rome and their home.
jNaea TIL 11,000 year old footprints of giant sloths have been found preserved in gypsum in New Mexico. Some also have human footprints within them, which effectively records all the action of a sloth hunt
ADbwn TIL Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi painting sold at auction in 1958 for just £45, and re-sold in 2017 for $450,312,500.
X0anR TIL that Leonardo da Vinci’s private life has sparked centuries of speculation about his sexuality, with Sigmund Freud analyzing his desires in Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood and Walter Isaacson suggesting he had homosexual relationships with male pupils.