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TIL not only were soldiers banned from entering ancient Rome, weapons were banned from the inner city borders as well

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mxRRR TIL two things about Good Will Hunting: Mel Gibson almost directed it, and the ending was suggested by Terrence Malick (facts #6 and #13 in the link)
X1L6 TIL Sony was awarded an Emmy award for the DualShock controller
gro44 TIL Acorn Woodpeckers bore small holes into dead trees, which they store acorns inside of to eat during the winter. Sometimes generations of woodpeckers reuse the same tree to store their harvests, adding up to 50,000 holes!
LEvZ TIL that a Turkish cell phone mis-rendered a text message, making it look as though a husband was accusing his wife of cheating on him. This caused a fight in which the wife was stabbed and subsequently died. The husband later killed himself in prison.
1ador TIL that Repairs on Benjamin Franklin’s old London house turned up 1200 pieces of bone from at least 15 people.