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TIL The Mongol Invasion ended partly since Korea in charge of shipbuilding ran out of wood

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165nX TIL that, when Cleopatra VII. Philpator (the one we know from Shakespeare/Asterix) was born in 69 b.c., her greek family, the Ptolemies, had already been ruling Egypt for 236 years since 305 b.c., and been there since the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 b.c. or his death in 323 b.c.
69EmX TIL of SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin. A German football club who, after the only other team in Berlin were kicked out the league got an unexpected promotion to the top league. The German FA wanted to keep a club in the city of Berlin for political reasons. They remain the worst team in Bundesliga history.
G0pG TIL The Poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was in fact about a little girl, Mary Sawyer, from Boston whose little lamb followed her to school one day in 1816.
WkbN TIL in 1998 a man began an attempt to walk around the world. After crossing the frozen Bering Sea he was deported by Russia. He is still trying to complete the journey.
78ADx TIL that St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, prophesized that Ireland will be destroyed by a flood 7 years before the Apocalypse