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TIL Colonel Gaddafi was sodomised with a knife or stick before he was killed

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DKvj TIL that when actor Glenn Shadix died in 2010 (who played Otho in the 1988 film ‘Beetlejuice’) the song 'Day-O’ by Harry Belafonte was played at his memorial service, a song he helped repopularize in that film’s famous dinner-party scene.
eZg6 TIL Sucking a king’s nipples was a gesture of submission in ancient Ireland.
9YBjB TIL that in 1890, an 8-year-old boy named Henry James Bristow saved his 3-year-old sister's life by tearing off her clothing when she caught on fire. She had knocked over a paraffin lamp on the mantlepiece. Henry was severely burnt in the process and later died of his injuries.
NXVR8 TIL that for about a decade in the 1200s, the heir apparent to the English throne was a boy named Alphonso.
e1a6 TIL The longest ever personality study found no correlation between people’s personalities at age 14 and age 77