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TIL: There are depictions of Medieval Knights fighting Snails in ancient manuscripts…and nobody knows why

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16xe7 TIL that roly-polies are not insects, they’re crustaceans. Roly-polies belong to the subphylum Crustacea, whereas insects belong to the class Insecta.
1aPO7 TIL about the Chicago Spire, a planned 2000 foot high skyscraper which would have been the highest building in the Americas, and 2nd tallest in the world. It would have looked like a "tall twisting tree" or "blade of grass." It was cancelled in 2008 due to the economic crisis.
ZDXY TIL that an African American woman named Beulah Mae Donald won a $7,000,000 settlement from The United Klans of America in Alabama, thereby bankrupting the association.
oRkxY TIL that “The Woody Woodpecker Song” was nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1948
YpQ1P TIL of the Massacre of St George's Fields 1768, where British troops fired on demonstrators who protested against the jailing of John Wilkes who severely criticised the King, killing 7 which led to multiple days of rioting and the threat of the abdication of the monarchy.