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May 27, 2020

TIL in 2003 two Iron Age bodies were discovered in a peat bog in Ireland. One stood 6 foot 6 inches tall and had manicured fingernails while the other had hair styled with hair gel. Both had been brutally murdered.

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Apr 11, 2020

TIL War for the Spartans was in some ways a respite from the strict schedule of their everyday lives and was almost seen as a holiday. Physical exercise was less rigorous, they were allowed a regimen less rigid and in the afternoons, they held competitions, sang hymns and recited poetry.

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Mar 14, 2020

TIL the Vandals (origin of the word "vandalism"), notorious for the sack of Rome, actually negotiated with the then Pope and only raided the city's wealth but left the buildings intact

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Dec 27, 2019

TIL African is extraordinarily genetically diverse. An Ethiopian person will likely have less in common genetically with a Sudanese person than they do with people from other continents.

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Dec 14, 2019

TIL The Ancient Romans held mock sea battles known as naumachia for entertainment. In some cases, whole amphitheaters like the coloseum would be flooded and the ship battles would take place within them while spectators would watch from their seats.

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Nov 03, 2019

TIL J. Edgar Hoover recommended that Einstein be kept out of America by the Alien Exclusion Act, but he was overruled by the U.S. State Department. FBI spied on Einstein for 22 years and kept a dossier with 1400+ Pages on him.

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Sep 19, 2019

TIL There is nothing written by pirates themselves, with the exception of educated people who 'went pirate' and probably didn't exhibit pirate speech patterns.

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Aug 16, 2019

TIL The Roman Colosseum was sometimes flooded to re-enact sea battles

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Aug 04, 2019

TIL One language dies every 14 days. There are 7,000 languages among 7 billion humans. Within the next century, nearly half of all languages are estimated to go extinct.

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Jun 08, 2019

TIL that Underneath the streets of Beijing, there are over a million people who live in nuclear bunkers.

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May 26, 2019

TIL of Edmond Albius. As a 12 year old slave boy in 1841, he invented the technique for pollinating vanilla orchids profitably. Without this technique, it’s unlikely that vanilla would be nearly as well known as it is today.

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Apr 04, 2019

TIL that there are currently more than a million people living underneath the streets of Beijing.

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