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TIL that the date of Easter every year is based on the Moon Cycle

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V7am TIL in 1999 Kargil war Yogendra Singh Yadav climbed a 16,500 feet tall cliff captured by Pakistani soldiers, he was shot three times, he continued to climb the remaining 60 feet, he killed four Pakistani soldiers and engaged in hand to hand combat.
E1wAW Today i learned Gadaffi invited 500 Italian models to a party, only to give them an hour lecture on Islam and a copy of the Qur'an each.
jEbQ TIL that a roman poet wrote such an NSFW poem, that it was not publicly translated until the late twentieth century.
4XvBw TIL Humans are not the only animal that likes to get drunk. Australian parrots have discovered that sugar spilt from cane trucks and wet by dew overnight can rapidly ferment in the Sun, providing free booze.
OG6d1 TIL Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni made a documentary about China that angered the CCP so much, they carried out an anti-Antonioni campaign that included televised denouncements, nationwide written criticisms and even anti-Antonioni songs taught to schoolchildren