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TIL that the most lethal sport riot in history happened in Constantinople AD 532, was over chariot racing, and saw tens of thousands dead and half the city destroyed.

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6pWl TIL In c. 552 two Christian monks, after learning Chinese silkworm cultivation, smuggled silkworm eggs on behalf of Byzantine emperor Justinian, resulting in the Empire’s monopoly over the European silk market and forming the foundations of its economy for the next 650 years (until its demise).
oOQR TIL Omnipotence paradox: Can God create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it? If he can’t, the argument goes, then there is something that he cannot do, and therefore he is not omnipotent. If he can, it continues, then there is also something that he cannot do, and therefore he is not omnipotent.
jbAv TIL of the Egyptian god Kek, a god of chaos and nighttime who was represented by a frog.
rRy6y TIL: LSD is one of the least toxic recreational drugs, that people have consumed 550 times a normal dose and have had beneficial outcomes from doing so.
aw0LZ TIL a woman who ordered pizza everyday for 3 years straight was saved by a delivery woman when she failed to place a order for 3 days