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TIL that Mexico was once almost as large as the Roman Empire

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nWoB7 TIL that a study in 1974, to test if leading questions can distort eyewitness testimony, indicated that indeed "the questions asked subsequent to an event can cause a reconstruction in one’s memory of that event."
VBw84 TIL that Fort Douaumont, the largest and most important fort in the city of Verdun’s defence system during World War I, fell to a force of 98 Germans in 3 days in February 1916. It took the French army 302 days, and an estimated 100,000 casualties to retake it.
6gnY TIL Arab inventor al-Jazari created several humanoid robots in the 1200s, including a drink-serving “waitress”, a hand-washing automaton, and a programmable music-playing robot band.
wLOnY TIL That a sign that a person has low-self esteem is if they feel that other people judge them even if there isn't evidence of other people judging them
OGkXY TIL that the cast of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy was barely paid for the work they did.