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TIL one of Australia’s deadliest creatures is a damn SNAIL

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R5LG9 TIL At some point after the battle of Drepana, in which the roman navy was wiped, Claudia, the roman commander's sister got stuck in a traffic jam, and in a bit of road rage she yelled "i wish my brother was still alive to lose another navy and thin that crowd". She was tried for treason
p1vO TIL that Joe Son, an actor who played Random Task in Austin Powers, is currently serving a life sentence without parole
YpN6G TIL that Juneau, Alaska and Iqaluit, Nunavut are unique among capital cities in North America as the only two without roads connecting to their state/provincial/territory.
DB6D TIL Tippmann has created a real life ‘Nuketown’ paintball field
BrE5b TIL in 2014, Harvard University discovered that a book inside their library from the 1880s was bound together using human skin. The book was named Destinies Of The Soul and was written by Dr. Bouland. In the book, he left this note: "A book about the human soul deserved to have human covering."