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TIL Pandora's Jar was called Pandora's Box due to translation error and the mistake has stuck!

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kR77 TIL of the Cagayan Battles of 1582 in the Philippines, the only recorded battle between European infantry and samurai. Conquistadors vs Samurai.
eplpJ TIL your arm doesn't fall asleep at night because of blood flow or circulation getting cut off. The feeling is actually caused by pinched nerves.
vJpx TIL that this year 3 top UFO investigators have died, all under mysterious circumstance. in an update today it was discovered the third managed to send his mother a text saying “If anything happens to me, investigate.”, just days before his death.
D1MNp TIL there are more than three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor.
V1rm TIL 7 of America’s 10 most affluent counties surround Washington D.C.