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TIL of the Erfurt latrine disaster where nobles of the Holy Roman Empire drowned in liquid excrement

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8e1ZK TIL that there are very few figurative statues in honour of enslaved people in the entire Caribbean - only 6!
wLX76 TIL of Bridget Driscoll, the first UK pedestrian to die from a petrol-engine car accident after it struck her going the "reckless pace" of 6 km/h. After her death, the coroner said he hoped "such a thing would never happen again"
GYED4 TIL David Bowie founded the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men with Long Hair” when he was 17. The BBC interviewed him about it on which he stated “It's not nice when people call you darling and that"
69gnW TIL there is a type of software bug known as heisenbug, inspired by heisenberg's uncertainty principle. while debugging software, it is a bug that seems to vanish when observed.
l7Om7 TIL Walt Disney won 4 Oscars at the 1953 Academy Awards; the most by an individual in a single year.