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TIL Balding at age 21, Sean Connery was wearing a toupee in all his Bond films

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40Qw TIL we say “pardon my French” after swearing because in the 19th century, English-speaking people would drop French phrases into conversation to display class, apologizing because many of their listeners wouldn’t know the language. Then people hid swear words under the pretense of them being French.
v4vL TIL that in 1254 C.E. the Mongol Khan organized a formal religious debate between teams of Christians, Muslims, & Buddhists. The debate went on for multiple rounds on a variety of theological topics until the participants became so drunk that it concluded without any clear winner.
yBLa TIL that there is in fact gravity at the international space station. So much so that someone that weighs 100 lbs on earth would weigh 90 on the station. The reason they float isn’t due to a lack of gravity, but rather because the astronauts are in a perpetual free fall.
AwP7 TIL that ancient Assyrian soldiers reportedly suffered hauntings and visions of the men they killed in battle, suggesting the earliest written example of PTSD sufferers.
d8Eor TIL that so many Soviets died during WWII that a Soviet male born in 1923 had just a 20% of surviving until his 23rd birthday.