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TIL Alaric, famous for sacking Rome in 410, was able to do so because he enjoyed the poetry of Claudian. Claudian had described a route through the alps into Italy in his poems, which Alaric found and was thus able to use and evade direct contact with the Roman army for 6-9 months.

P0dE TIL that the most common hypothesis for the cause of motion sickness is that it functions as a defense mechanism against neurotoxins. When feeling motion but not seeing it or vice versa, the brain will conclude that the discordance is due to poison ingestion. It then responds by inducing vomiting.
VBWbQ TIL: Pakistan’s Jahangir Khan, who overcame a congenital heart defect, went on to dominate squash with a 555-match win streak and 16 major titles, cementing his legacy as the greatest player in the sport’s history.
veLr TIL letters sent to London Newspapers by Jack The Ripper had a sample of saliva from their stamps tested in 2006. The results seemed to point to the sender of the letters being a woman.
gr10X TIL when Pat Riley became the Head Coach of the Miami Heat in 1995, his contract didn't allow him to bring his own video coordinator which spared the job of the existing one. That video coordinator was Erik Spoelstra and in 2008 Spoelstra became Riley's successor as the head coach of the Heat.
aJdL TIL there are about 200,000 Africans in the city of Guangzhou, China, their number increasing by 30-40% every year, the area they live in is now called “Chocolate City” by locals