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TIL of 1177 BC: The year that civilization collapsed. In a short period of time all empires along the Mediterranean collapsed violently;including the Egyptian, Hittite, and Mycenaean empires.Almost every significant city in the eastern Mediterranean world was destroyed, and historians don’t know why

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nD7B TIL one of the leading advocates of circumcision was John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the famous breakfast cereal. He advocated the consumption of Kellogg’s corn flakes to prevent masturbation, and he believed that circumcision would be an effective way to eliminate masturbation in males.
e0WVD TIL that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, repeatedly warned Viennas hardline Chief of Staff that continued harsh oppression of the Serbians would eventually draw Austria into a war with Russia and spell the doom of both empires. Neither empire survived World War I.
neOXd TIL of The Olgas, Australia’s lesser known ‘giant rock’. It’s highest point is more than 200meters taller than Uluru.
d8WeE TIL Computers can only generate 'true random' numbers by measuring unpredictable real-world physical phenomenon such as radioactive-decay or noise, whilst many generate 'psuedo-random' numbers which are not truly random and are produced using mathematical algorithms based on an initial value.
BggAb Today I learned about “Yu-Mex”music. A genre of music popular during the 1950s and 1960s in Yugoslavia which incorporated elements of traditional Mexican music. Yugoslavian musicians were known to don sombreros in their performances.