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TIL that the “Byzantine Empire” is a historiographical term “created after the end of the realm; its citizens continued to refer to their empire as the Roman Empire”

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4XbDb TIL a man was stabbed to death by a chicken wielding a knife while spectating an illegal cockfight in 2011
0PeM TIL two men para-glided off of the top of Mt. Everest, touching down over 15 miles away in only 42 minutes and avoiding the potentially deadly 3 day descent.
8a9d4 TIL That Scientists discovered a species of fungus at Chernobyl that uses the gamma radiation from the nuclear waste as a food source
VBoeD TIL the Monorail song from the Simpsons is based on the song “Ya Got Trouble” from the 1958 stage show The Music Man
NvOb TIL that there were so many sea turtles in the Caribbean Sea when Christopher Columbus arrived that his crew was kept awake at night by the sound of the turtles banging against the hulls of the ships.