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TIL of the Arkadiko Bridge, the oldest crossable bridge in Europe, dated to Mycenaean Period (c.1300-1190 BCE)

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6EkYw TIL that KGB spy Oleg Lyalin was caught when he was pulled over for drunk driving and bragged to the police officer that he was a KGB spy. He went on to defect, exposing over 100 other spies in England.
0arR TIL of William Adams, the first Westerner to be officially given the title of “samurai” by the Shogun of Japan, renamed Miura Anjin.
v1bJK TIL Snow isn’t actually white, but rather translucent. It’s the light reflecting off it that makes it appear white with the many sides of the snowflake scattering light in many directions, diffusing the entire colour spectrum. Snow can also appear in a wide variety of spectacular hues.
mxk1P TIL about Exploding Head Syndrome, a sleep/headache disorder in which a person may hear a loud, hallucinatory noise right before falling asleep/waking up. Despite the vivid name, it is completely harmless.
78kGP TIL that Rocky Marciano when knocking out opponent Rex Layne, dislodged four of Layne’s teeth which flew alongside his mouthpiece out of the ring.