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TIL During WWII, the Amsterdam zoo hid around 250 people from the Nazis during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

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neVPG TIL that in 89 BC Roman soldiers have reportedly captured a satyr (a mythical creature) while at war in Greece. They’ve brought it to their general Sulla for interrogation, but it only spoke in something like a cross between the neighing of a horse and the bleating of a goat.
rRvAo TIL NASA has online 3D models of all of the planets in our solar system, as well as several moons, probes, and the ISS.
WKrA TIL that the CPU of the Game Boy Color ran at 4.19 MHz. In comparison, a modern day i7 7700k desktop processor runs at 4.2 GHz.
grdZ9 TIL: Various Liberal and Progressive Branches of Quakers have recognized Sam Sex Marriage for 50 years
v18jx TIL of Congressman Lucas Miller who proposed an amendment renaming the United States of America to the United States of the Earth in 1893. He also proposed abolishing the Army and Navy.