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9YMKG TIL György Dózsa was executed extremelly cruelly. They made him sit on a heated iron throne and wear a heated iron crown. Then they made his rebel soldiers bite and eat his flesh while priests were singing songs.
mx0DM TIL Usain Bolt suffered from scoliosis when he was younger and has an asymmetrical stride when he runs because his legs are slightly different lengths. Researchers aren’t sure if this lack of symmetry is a personal mechanical optimization by Bolt that makes him the fastest human or not.
wLEa6 TIL that a study from Harvard University finds that having no friends can be just as deadly as smoking. Both effect levels of a blood-clotting protein.
nWgKY TIL that after sacking Antioch in 540 AD, the Sasanian king Khosrow I deported its population to Persia and resettled them in a new city he founded, named Wēh Antīōk Khosrow—meaning "Khosrow's Better Antioch."
0wjdy TIL the first ever Kentucky Derby (1875) was won by Oliver Lewis, a 19 y/o black man.