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TIL the English forced Jews to wear badges over 650 years before the Nazis

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Mj1A TIL that the sharp, sudden pain in the left side if your chest that hurts more when you breathe is called “Precordial Catch”
6a5Y TIL that back in 1845, baseball was played until both teams had a combined score of 21.
xY4k TIL the man who killed President McKinley, often dismissed as a mentally disturbed anarchist, did it in part due to US policies in the Philippines at the time, which though nearly forgotten today, resulted in the deaths of 200k-250k civilians and over 5,000 US troops
E15ed TIL of the old jewish cemetery in prague. Dating back to 1478, it has gotten full so many times and they just kept adding layers. Now there are 12 layers of graves stacked on top of each other. There are about 12,000 visible tombstones but over 100,000 people buried there.
6W0W TIL in 1918 after the Treaty of Versailles (end of WW I) the French Commander-in-chief said “This is not a Peace. It is an Armistice for 20 years”. 20 years and 65 days later, WW II happened