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TIL Blackbeard’s flag depicted a skeleton spearing a heart while toasting the devil.

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1amR4 TIL, that the Queen banned a documentary about the British Royal Family in 1969 which aired only one time in British Television and was locked away in BBC's Vault. But the banned documentary has now reappeared to the public.
VBXMZ TIL that in 2013 baseball great Mike Piazza appeared in a production of the Miami City Ballet whose school his daughter attended. Piazza said he did this in an attempt to raise the profile of ballet among sports fans.
G5Z5 TIL fainting at the sight of blood may have evolved to help us “play dead” when attacked
W7VRY TIL that the cotton in your pill bottles should always be thrown out. Once they were used to stop medication from knocking about the bottle and crumbling, but are now coated to avoid this. Today, the cotton ball can only serve as a moisture trap that may compromise your medications/vitamins.
oNXr TIL in Venezuela in 2007, a man woke up during his autopsy