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TIL that Ketchup, both the word and sauce, originate from China

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yn0M TIL after invading Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, Philip II of Macedon sent a message to Sparta: “If I invade Laconia you will be destroyed, never to rise again.” The Spartan ephors replied with a single word: “If.” Phillip and his son Alexander never tried to invade.
Z8xwD TIL archeologists discovered a hidden message on a 2,600 year old piece of pottery. The message was written in ancient Hebrew and it says "If there is any wine, send it."
jNKPQ TIL about the "omnipotence paradox," where the ability to do anything and everything seems to lead to logically contradictory ideas such as creating square circles. Its most well-known version is the so-called paradox of the stone: "Could God create a stone so heavy that even He could not lift it?"