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TIL Princess Olga of Kiev (a saint in the Catholic Church) was courted by the same tribe that killed her husband & proceeded to bury the tribe's suiters alive, burned the tribe's best warriors alive, slaughtered around 5,000 tribesmen during a celebration and burned their capital to the ground.

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4bBN TIL As a knife-wielding assassin jumped out of a crowd of people & lunged toward the President of the Maldives, a quick-thinking Boy Scout who was standing in the crowd in his uniform grabbed the blade & saved the leader’s life. As in the US, the motto of the Maldivian Boy Scouts is: “Be Prepared.”
J1gam TIL Hong Kong digs up the dead after 6 years for cremation due to lack of space
yVyvl TIL that Brooke Greenberg, who died in 2013, was the only person in the world with ‘Syndrome X’, which made her remain physically and cognitively similar to a 1 year old, despite being 20 years old at the time of her death.
QJNWM TIL college students in the U.S. on average spend 85% more for on-campus food than the average American spends on food
Wk9WL TIL: When roosters open their beaks fully, their external auditory canals completely closed off. Basically, roosters have built in earplugs. This helps prevent them from damaging their hearing when they crow.