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TIL of the Ozark Medieval Fortress, a now defunct attempt to build a period authentic 13th-century French castle in northern Arkansas

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4kBD5 TIL that swinging our arms when walking makes us spend less energy and walk faster than if we tried to hold them still.
4jAJ TIL as the third man in history stepped onto the moon he said “Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me”
Q4V9 TIL Custer’s only strategy for the Battle of Little Bighorn (his ‘last stand’) was to kidnap women, children, elderly and disabled and use them as human shields.
R7yNw TIL that Agatha Christie wrote the final Hercule Poirot book "Curtain" in the 1940s, fearing she might die during the blitz and leave the book series without a proper ending. She kept writing more books after that, and once she decided she was done "Curtain" was finally published in 1975.
oebA TIL In 1988, a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student a few years later.