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TIL A Pyrrhic victory is one in which the victor incurs such damage on the path to victory that the outcome is no better than defeat.

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rYve TIL - Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West in “The Wizard of Oz”) suffered 3rd-degree burns to her face and hands during the scene in Munchkinland where she exits in a ball of flame.
GYV74 TIL after arriving in Italy for the Fourth Crusade, the crusader army could not fund their expedition. They spent the remainder of the crusade sacking an Italian city, getting excommunicated, and pillaging the Christian city of Constantinople. Very few went to the Holy Land.
Z8WNG TIL that the moon is 6 feet farther away from Earth since humans last walked on it
R5v8 TIL that a person’s willpower is directly linked to their glucose levels. So people quitting smoking, when you get a craving just have some jelly beans instead.
9RgB TIL the waste produced by coal power plants is more radioactive than that generated by nuclear power plants