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TIL of Heinrich Schliemann, an amateur archeologist who located the ancient city of Troy in the 1870s among other feats. Modern archeologists disapprove of his methods - using dynamite to blow up the site and looking through the debris.

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yyDp TIL llamas are born with an extra pair of fighting teeth that they use to bite off other males’ testicles, making them the only fertile male in the group.
b6lpa TIL of Strivers' Row, a district of Harlem, NYC, whose houses were built in the 1890s. The houses sat empty for more than 20 years because at first the owner would only sell to white people, but by the 1920s the area had become the leading district for upper-middle class black families.
x6edB TIL on Valentine's Day in 1991 during the Gulf War, the RAF attempted to airstrike a bridge in Fallujah with laser guided missiles, but they malfunctioned and hit a local marketplace. The RAF apologized and subsequently attacked the bridge again, hitting a different marketplace.
ob48 TIL if you are lost in the bush, 99% of the time you’ll walk in big circles as big as 1km. The human body will always walk to one side of something (trees in this case) and favour that side every time, unless you’re aware of this fault. There’s also a science to it.
4XAja TIL of Chad Varah—a priest who started the first suicide hotline in 1953 after the first funeral he conducted early in his career was for a 14-year-old girl who took her own life after having no one to talk to when her first period came and believed she’d contracted an STD.