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TIL Austria's, Wiener Zeitung one of the oldest Published Daily Newspaper published it's last edition on 06/30/2023

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e0Lvn TIL that sections of the Great Wall of China were first built in the 7th century BC to try and stop the constant invading and pillaging by Mongol hordes. This indicates by the time Genghis Khan was born, Mongols had a 𝘡𝘸𝘰 𝘡𝘩𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘒𝘯π˜₯ year history of being intimidating war-saavy plunderers.
vneK TIL - Netherlands has a plan where flooding the country could be used as a defence strategy and this can easily be done by destroying various flood defences in case of attack by a foreign country.
b9MN7 TIL that the katzenklavier ("cat piano") is a hypothetical musical instrument made out of cats. Designed by 17th-century scholar, Athanasius Kircher, it consists of a row of caged cats with different voice pitches. It is to be "played" by driving a nail into the cat's tail to make it yowl
VMbd0 TIL that the Olympic Rings logo represents Earth's five continents and the colors of the rings, with the white background, were chosen because those colors could make every country's flag as each existed in 1915.
j88p TIL that ‘Tommy Boy’ is actually an update of Shakespeare’s 'Hamlet’: Tommy is the Prince, his father dies, his mother (Bo Derek) is Gertrude, in reality married to his “step brother” (Rob Lowe) who is Claudius. David Spade’s character is Horatio.