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TIL Senet is a 5,000-year old board game that was played in ancient Egypt.

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5jDr TIL a pegion named “Cher Ami” despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood and with a leg hanging only by a tendon flew 40kms to deliver S.O.S message & saved the lives of 194 soldiers in WW1.
5Y57Q Til of the Cagots, a minority population in Europe in medieval times. They were shunned, hated, and segregated from entering taverns or touching food in markets. They were not an ethnic or religious group and were indistinguishable from other people, and no one knows why they were so despised.
4BVo TIL that Weird Al Yankovic always asks permission to do a parody from the original artist, even though, under the Fair Use Act, he is not legally required to do so.
ANpk7 TIL On october 5, 2022, in Idaho, USA, David Rush managed to hold and light 150 candles simultaneously in his mouth. David had previously held this record title. He reclaimed it at the Discovery Center of Idaho Science Center to promote STEM education
pYPMe TIL that during the 2022 Asia Rugby Sevens Series, the 2022 Asian Classic Powerlifting Championship and the 2023 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships a Song created "to boost protesters' morale" was played instead of Hong Kong's actual national anthem