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TIL Sabaton are a Swedish band that teaches history through Heavy metal!

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MnO0 TIL that Firefox and Chrome users stay in their jobs 15 percent longer than their Safari and IE counterparts.
JYOZk TIL Jackie Robinson retired from baseball and became the Vice President of Chock Full o'Nuts coffee.
j698v TIL in 2001 King Mswati III Imposed a ban on Sex with girls under 18. 2 months later he marries his 9th wife who was 17 and fined himself "1 Cow" for breaking the law. In 2005 he repeals the law so he can marry another girl who was aged 17 - then 3 months later he marries another 18 year old girl.
pY6WG TIL in 1965 part of the training to be Special Forces Medic in Vietnam included the Dog Lab at Fort Bragg where they had to shoot a Dog (The Patient) with a .22 (in the thigh) and then successfully treat the wound
KYMwB TIL about "Fossa Carolina" a project funded by Charlemagne to try to connect the Rhine and the Danube. It is not confirmed if it was ever operational or not.