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TIL that in Brazil they are treating burns with Tilapia skin.

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b9GLp TIL about the siege of the alcazar during the spanish civil war. The defenders held out for 2 months during which the entire castle was reduced to ruins after heavy artillery bombardement and mines. Their commander refused to surrender even when his son was captured and later executed.
4Py5 TIL that C-3PO and R2-D2 had their own 1985 single season 13 episode spin-off TV series.
yQARa TIL that there is a tradition in the United States Senate in which a Senator keeps a desk full of candy
pYN9G TIL mole Robert Hanssen was caught because a tape the FBI paid $7 million in part to get contained a quote from a Patton speech, "the purple-pissing Japanese", and the agent listening to the tape remembered Hanssen using the same phrase once.
jdGX TIL that in 1586 a pregnant widow wrote a letter to her partner, who had died at the age of 30. This was found by archaeologists in South Korea in 1998, intact with the man’s mummified body and a pair of sandals woven from hemp and the woman’s hair.