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TIL Aegis is a shield carried by Zeus and Athena. That's why we say "under someone's aegis", which means doing something under the protection.

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E1ABo TIL of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. Most commonly found in children, sufferers experience sensory distortions, such as feeling their heads are far from their bodies, hearing amplified or altered sounds, hallucinations, and a feeling of depersonalization or separation from one's own body.
EE60 TIL that the German army has over a thousand troops in the US, with a headquarters outside Washington DC
nWx4P TIL That Duck Testing -- where one determines who is a witch by weather or not they float in water -- was an actual thing, and not something Monty Python made up
neeyW TIL a Potter's field is a place where unclaimed bodies are buried. The Potter's field for New York is Hart Island in the Bronx and it is home to over one million bodies.
b9Ey0 TIL that the worlds shortest world leader was President Benito Juárez of Mexico at only 4 feet 6 inches (1.37 meters) and the tallest was Maharana Pratap, King of Mewar in present day Rajasthan (a state in India), at 7 feet 5 inches (2.2 meters)