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TIL that soldiers that wielded bronze swords used the metal filings from sharpening their blades after combat as a disinfectant for their wounds, due to copper's anti-microbial properties.

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yQXge TIL: 53-year-old former Chicago Sun Times Publisher, James Tyree, died accidentally from an air embolism and the family won a ten million dollar wrongful death suit settlement.
d84J7 TIL that Philip of Hesse, after having a scandalous relationship exposed, declared his mistress dead of the plague and threw a massive church funeral for her. In reality, he had buried a wooden doll and had smuggled the mistress off to a castle where he continued to have children with her.
VBgVG TIL, when Keanu Reeves was 16, he had an interesting Halloween costume, in the form of Dolly Parton's 1978 Playboy Bunny. His mother is a costume designer, and she made that outfit for Dolly Parton.
kJ0E1 TIL Rolex is owned by a charitable foundation and pays no corporate tax
N7pJ6 TIL about Rebecca Huger, an 11-year-old emancipated slave girl who posed for patriotic photos with the U.S. flag; the photos were sold to raise money for the education of freed slaves in New Orleans. "To all appearance she [was] perfectly white," like her father/former owner.