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TIL the Trojan Horse doesn't appear in Homer's Iliad, which concludes before the fall of Troy. It is only briefly referenced the Odyssey. Virgil's Aeneid, written ~25 BC, provides a more detailed ...
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TIL that Holiday Inn was named after the 1942 musical film of the same name.
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TIL that before 1966, there was no way to know for sure if a baby had Down syndrome until they were born.
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TIL about The Gates of Paradise, a novel by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski. The novel consists of 40,000 words written in two sentences, with nearly no punctuation. The second sentence contains ...
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TIL that Michael Jackson and Stephen King once collaborated in 1996 on a music video titled: "Michael Jackson's Ghosts". It was the longest music video at the time at 40 minutes and the most expen...
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TIL that NBA player Latrell Sprewell, after being told by head coach PJ Carlesimo to make better passes during a practice, choked Carlesimo for 10 seconds before being pulled off by his teammates....
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TIL that Michael Jackson once paid an African voodoo chief to put a curse on Steven Spielberg and David Geffen.
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TIL in 2021 Ireland was declared a UFO/UAP hot-spot, with the most recorded sightings in Europe and the most sightings per capita in the world.
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TIL that in 2013, Jon Stewart founded an animal sanctuary for animals saved from slaughterhouses and live markets
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TIL Cheerios were originally called “Cheerioats” but changed because the Quaker Oats Company claimed they held the rights to the term “oats.”
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TIL The youngest woman to be executed under UK law in the 20th century was 22 year old Irma Grese, "the hyena of Auschwitz". She first volunteered to be a concentration camp guard before she turne...
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TIL about contranyms - words that can have multiple meanings that oppose or contradict each other
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TIL about firefighter Donald Herbert. After lapsing into a coma following a firefighting accident he awoke a year later unable to recognize friends or family. He then lapsed into a minimally consc...
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TIL that Kazakhstan has allocated $1.4 million in public funds to promote and develop sport horse breeding in the country. The program helps two Kazakh-developed horse breeds, the Kustanai (Kostan...
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TIL that the name of the Teutonic Kights is The Order of Brothers of the German House of St Mary in Jerusalem and still exists as a Catholic religious order.
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TIL twice a year, the sea of South Korea briefly pulls back to reveal a hidden path across the water. It only happens in spring and early summer, lasting just 40 to 60 minutes giving people a shor...
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TIL the Aztecs had different forms of currency, including cocoa beans, cotton, and copper axe heads.
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TIL the Boxer crab holds a small sea anemone in each claw and threatens predators with their stinging tentacles. It cannot feed itself with its claws, instead it uses the anemones’ tentacles to co...
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TIL when geologist Marie Tharp identified a giant rift valley running down the Atlantic seafloor in the 1950s—evidence for the then-controversial theory of continental drift—her male colleague dis...
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TIL Though often thought to have become extinct following contact with Europeans, the Taíno in fact still inhabited Jamaica when the English took control of the island in 1655. Some fled into inte...
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TIL Corinth and Thebes demanded that Athens should be destroyed and all its citizens should be enslaved after the Peloponnesian War. However, the Spartans announced their refusal to destroy a city...
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TIL about Al Bowlly,who was Britain's most popular singer for most of the 1930s. He recorded upwards of 1,000 songs that were listened to by millions in Britain. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parac...
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TIL that during the development of Arma 3, two developers on vacation were arrested, detained, and later convicted by Greek authorities after taking photos near a dual-use airport on the island of...
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TIL that an outbreak of hantavirus in the USA happened before. This occurred in the Four Corners region of the Desert Southwest in 1993, which was caused by an explosion in rodent population thank...
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TIL bone char made from animal bones are used to refine sugar.
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