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TIL that William I's response to northern rebellion in England was to order the wholesale slaughter of the inhabitants of northern shires, and the burning of food, homes, crops, tools, and livestock so that survivors would freeze or starve

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KOE4a TIL that Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric solar system (making the sun the center of the solar system instead of earth) from his death bed because he was aware of the controversy it would cause and the danger it proposed to him. He was right.
LBlZ TIL some historians blame Atari for the Video Game Crash of 1983. Atari figured anything would sell, and even tried to produce a Rubik’s cube video game.
P1ONJ TIL Brian Doyle-Murray, who played Clark Griswald's boss in Christmas Vacation, was only 44 years old when the movie was released in 1989.
Z8X6B TIL Mars Inc (the confectionary company) employs two thirds of all veterinarians that graduate in America, and now owns two thirds of all corporate animal hospitals
bBl4 TIL that 58% of Russians don’t know who built the Berlin Wall, 10% think Berlin residents built it themselves, 6% think Western powers built it, and 4% think it was a bilateral agreement between the Soviet Union and the West