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TIL If you have ever worked with the CIA in any capacity you are permanently precluded from working with the Peace Corps

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x6vow TIL that it only takes five minutes for alcohol to affect your brain
nWlAB TIL that British Royalty used to place Wax or Wood figures of the deceased on top of their coffin before burial and for display afterward in Westminster Abbey. More than 20 of these funeral effigies, dating back to Edward III from 1377, remain and are on display at the Westminster Abbey Museum.
ANrn TIL Sparta’s best general, Alcibiades, lead attacks on Athens that nearly destroyed it. Then he switched sides, used his knowledge of Sparta to lead Athens to military victories which forced Sparta to sue for peace. Also Socrates, his homosexual lover, once saved his life in battle.
6EJKY TIL With the Norman conquest of Britain in 1066 the French took over England. The lower-class were the hunters so animal names persist, and the upper-class French only saw the butchered meats. As a result, we refer to beef (boeuf), pork (porc) and mutton (mouton) instead of cow/pig/sheep.
jJeX TIL Denmark & Norway were a single country between 1524 - 1814 and Sweden and Norway were a single country between 1814 - 1905