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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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xVZMb TIL 'Bless you' as a response to sneezing comes from the days of the plague when a sneeze was often the first sign of imminent death.
69p7Z TIL that Otto von Bismarck (born in 1815) recorded himself on an Edison phonograph in 1889 quoting the lyrics of 'La Marseillaise'. The first chancellor of united Germany recited the national anthem of France to mock the French, whom he had defeated in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
6keW TIL: The average American woman now weighs as much as the average American man in the 1960s
rgle TIL in 2009 two nuclear submarines crashed into one another and nearly sank. And in 1998, 93, 92, 81, 70…
XPOQ TIL that nearly 60 percent of Medal of Honor recipients have been Irish-American, including 257 Irish natives.