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AjEl TIL that per mile traveled, the number of deaths on motorcycles is 27 times the number in cars.
x9lw TIL that in 1484, Pope Innocent VIII condemned cats as unholy creatures, causing thousands of cats to be burned alive.
9Y6Vr TIL Grenadiers were originally tall and strong soldiers who specialized in just throwing grenades. In the 18th century, grenades lost popularity so grenadiers were repurposed as elite soldiers.
n8n7 TIL not all Kamikaze were volunteers, “It’s all a lie that they left filled with braveness and joy, crying, ‘Long live the emperor!’ They were sheep at a slaughterhouse. Everybody was looking down and tottering. Some were unable to stand up and were carried and pushed into the plane by soldiers.”
rNJYd TIL that the Sphinx is the oldest known monumental sculpture in Egypt dating back to the old kingdom during the reign of Khafre (c. 2558–2532 BC). The nose was deliberately chiseled off before the 15th century as it's absence is referred to in descriptions by the 15th-century historian al-Maqrīzī.