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TIL when Alexander the Great asked the philosopher Diogenes why he was sifting through the garbage, Diogenes responded,“I am looking for the bones of your father but I cannot distinguish them from the bones of his slaves.”

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0dwMM TIL that the gavel used by the US Senate was smashed to bits by Richard Nixon during a heated argument on US nuclear energy
ep9mn TIL that out of the roughly 40 countries that have used the RPG-7 rocket launcher, Lithuania is the only one that has stopped using it
5VVmk TIL The New York Mets mascot, Mr. Met, was replaced for one season (1979) by a live mule named Mettle the Mule. The team finished the season with the worst record in their division, and the average attendance was the lowest in Mets history.
Z80rD TIL Tim Duncan was almost an olympic swimmer but took up basketball when Hurricane Hugo destroyed his training pool and he was too afraid of sharks to train in the ocean
J1aoV TIL about Charles Mayers a seaman who survived the Halifax explosion. The explosion hurled him several hundred metres in the air and he landed naked on a hill a mile away.