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TIL: the Spanish inquisition had to give 30 days notice, so people knew they were comming.

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5YxRr TIL Many of the tracks to The Lord of the Rings score features choirs singing in Tolkien's fictional languages, such as Sindarin, Khuzdul and Rohirric, the lyrics of which often reflecting what is happening on screen, and usually written as a poem.
Y7ewA TIL that castrated men do not go bald. Balding is caused by sex hormones which castrated men do not produce.
5YyAB TIL that between 1967 and 1989 East Germany sent a massive amount of arms to ANYONE at war with Israel - to the tune of three quarters of a million Klashnikovs, 120 MiG fighters, 180,000 anti-personell mines, 235,000 grenades; 25,000 RPG launchers; and 25 million cartridges of varying sizes.
PWww TIL The reason Irish dance has so little body movement is because dancing was banned by British soldiers. Dancers would appear to stand still while moving their feet.
e0nKE TIL a set of twins were born 87 days apart, setting a world record. One of the twins was born 4 month prematurely while the other did not arrive until 3 months after.