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WOx8 TIL that Stonehenge was once surrounded by what amounted to a giant city, a kind of “Prehistoric Vatican”.
woDEY TIL about Black Monday during the Hundred Years' War, in which a sudden hailstorm killed around 1000 English soldiers and up to 6,000 horses in only half an hour. The carnage convinced the English king that the storm was God's wrath, and he sued for peace with the French the next day.
XEmr TIL: A boomerang will still come back to you in a zero gravity pressurised environment
Zpx9p TIL a donut shop in Portland, Oregon was told by the FDA to stop adding medicine to food because it included Nyquil and Pepto Bismol to its donuts.
dnmd TIL the biggest lobster ever documented was in 1977- 44 lb, almost 4 feet long, and estimated to be as old as 100 years. Records show lobsters reached as big as 6 feet during colonial times!