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TIL King Arthur had a spear called Rhongomyniad, which Geoffrey of Monmouth called Ron.

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D1P9V TIL that during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, many black citizens, widely believed to be immune to the disease, volunteered to deal with the dead and dying as white citizens fled the city. The immunity seems to have not actually existed, and blacks died at the same rates as whites.
XEYVR TIL The Reischstag in Germany contains Soviet graffiti from WW2, some of it quite vulgar.
dDxb8 TIL A 2007 independent panel found that alcohol is "freely used in crew quarters," where astronauts are quarantined at the Kennedy Space Center in the three days before launch. NASA policy prohibits any drinking in the 12 hours before an astronaut flies a training jet
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