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xw5g TIL flaming pigs were used in ancient warfare as a countermeasure against war elephants.
9ooG TIL, Irene Triplett is still collecting her father’s military Civil War pension at $73.13 each month.
P15oJ TIL: The world record for longest time spent awake is not 11 days, contrary to popular belief, but 18 days and 21 hours.
vP17x TIL the suffragette bombing and arson campaign of 1912-1914 caused at least five deaths
bErE TIL of British woman Joyce Carol Vincent, who died alone in her bedsit in 2003 but wasn’t discovered until 2006. She was found with the television still on and surrounded with wrapped Christmas presents.