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TIL that dragon fruit comes from cactuses
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TIL of the Groom of the Stool. A person who was responsible for assisting the king in excretion and hygiene.
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TIL An Australian public transport authority (Metro Trains, Melbourne) made a music video to promote railway safety. The video was censored in Russia because it “contains a description of different ways of committing suicide”
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TIL: Sir Edward Grey, who famously said at the beginning of WWI "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime" went almost blind during the war.
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TIL that on his first appearance, Lex Luthor had a full set of red hair, his Iconic bald look was the result of one of the artist at DC mistaking one of his Henchmen in the earlier comics for the real Lex.
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TIL that Tamerlane was a Turkish ruler whose tomb was discovered by Soviet archeologists in 1941. An inscription in the tomb read “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Two days later, the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the USSR.