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TIL in 1343, while laying siege to a Genoese outpost, a Mongolian army fell ill With plague. During withdrawal, they catapulted the diseased bodies into the city. The inhabitants then also fell ill, and the merchants in the city went on to spread the plague to Constantinople and ultimately Europe.

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v80B TIL in 1968, a cash-laden bank vehicle was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
0wGNR TIL that New York City alone has more people than Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and New Mexico combined
LnBm TIL that no point within the state of Michigan is more than 6 miles from a lake
45g5 TIL: Vidal Sassoon was a militant Anti-Fascist and once went into the salon he apprenticed at with a black eye from fighting with fascists the night before.
jN1wv TIL “Game of Thrones” actor Kit Harington’s ancestor invented the first flushing toilet for Queen Elizabeth I, called the “John Harington.” It was later just referred to as “the john.”