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TIL: About the hollywood heart attack. In media heart attacks are shown to have a sudden onset, when in reality most do not.

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5YWWk TIL the ‘infinity symbol’ is called a Lemniscate.
MeMoA TIL the Tamagotchi won its creators the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics "for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual pets."
BrlYD TIL the Turkish sultan Alp Arslan took great pride in his archery. When a captured enemy drew his dagger and charged him, Arslan waived his guards away and drew his bow. He missed, got stabbed in the chest and died four days later from his wounds.
pMdZ TIL ancient Egyptian workmen who dug the pharaohs’ tombs got paid sick leave, according to 3000 year-old records
16XGV TIL that the Sovereign Military Order of Malta briefly had an air force after WWII