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TIL that the site for modern-day Vatican City was originally a circus for Roman Emperor Nero called Circus of Nero.

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x6J51 TIL The Great Wall of China was reinforced with rice
45l6 TIL the Holodomor Genocide was a man made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine from 1932-1933.
M7Q08 TIL Major General Orde Wingate, who would later devise and lead the Chindit raids in Burma, once persuaded an Italian commander in Abyssinia to surrender his 12,000 strong force to Wingate's 2000 man force, despite having been ordered by his superiors to cease pursuing the Italians.
VB19Z TIL, Apollo Creed actor Carl Weathers played 1 NFL season for the Raiders with John Madden as his head coach
XAOR TIL an inmate confronted Al Capone to get back when he cut in the line, Al asked him if he knows who he is and while holding scissors to Capone’s neck he replied: “Yeah, I know who you are, greaseball. And if you don’t get back to the end of that fucking line, I’m gonna know who you were.”