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TIL in 1981 archaeologists discovered a medieval knight's body which still had liquid blood, intact organs and visible irises.

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x6Xmo TIL that after constantly eat raw beef over a couple of years, a man in China eventually had a 20 foot long tapeworm living in his small intestine, and it turned out that the tapeworm had been inside his small intestines for at least 2 years.
mA1Y TIL George Crum invented the potato chips after a customer complaint that his french fries were too thick and soft. In order to teach him a lesson, he cut the potatoes as thin as possible, deep fried them to a crisp and salted them. The customers loved them and the potato chips were invented.
J1PGj TIL about the “other 9/11”, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, which was supported by the CIA.
XQE TIL that the highest scoring Soccer game was 149-0 In which, in protest, Stade Olympique de L'Emyrne started to score on themselves in protest of a few bad calls the referee made.
0wK4N TIL there was a sex cult community called Rajneeshpuram in Oregon back in the 1980s. They had poisoned over 750 people to commit voter fraud and had multiple assassination attempts on the Wasco county officials although none of the assassination succeeded.