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TIL Alexander The Great Made his Troops Carry Licorice Root to help Quench Thirst

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najd TIL A study by Harvard University reports that men with waist sizes of 43 inches or more are 50 percent more likely to suffer from prostate enlargement than men of normal weight.
enmJ TIL the first webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab – its sole purpose was to monitor a particular coffee maker and hence avoid wasted trips to an empty pot.
9wNWB TIL Gucci was accused of evading taxes on more than 1 billion euros in revenues between 2011 and 2017. Its owner Kering, which has denied avoiding tax, agreed to pay $1.4B in 2019 to settle the dispute, which was the highest ever agreed settlement by a company with Italian tax authorities.
16BOO TIL that $100,000 were wired to 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the insistence of Pakistan's ISI Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed and he was meeting with Porter Goss and Bob Graham in Washington over breakfast discussing Osama Bin Laden when the attacks occured.
XbeD TIL an African tribe still wears Victorian clothes, the style of former German occupiers that they’ve made their own