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TIL High heels were originally designed for men in medieval europe to assist with horseback riding.

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DQevj TIL of Laura Secord who walked 20 miles through American lands to inform the British-Canadian military about an American attack during the War of 1812. The alerted British-Canadian forces were able to repel the attack and capture 500 American soldiers.
YpAlB TIL Japan has Pokemon manhole covers, including Magicarp in an area famous for carp varieties and Gyrados next to the largest lake in the country. All of them are Pokestops.
xZGo TIL motivational speaker born without arms or legs Nick Vujicic keeps a pair of shoes in his closet because of his belief in miracles.
DQ1XP TIL that Britain proposed a Franco-British Union in 1940 to prevent the French from surrendering to Germany. Philippe Pétain referred to the union as "fusion with a corpse".
wLNmP TIL John Williams' soundtrack in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" lost to Howard Shore's score of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" for Best Original Score. Critical reactions to the soundtrack were almost universally positive