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TIL shooting stars (meteors) can often times be as small as a grain of sand

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W7ZoY TIL about the siege of Dura-Europos, one of history's first use of chemical weapons and tunnel warfare, during the siege the Persians dug tunnels to bypass the Roman walls, Romans dug their own tunnels to reach them and fight them but the Persians released sulphur dioxide in the tunnels, killing 20.
69lxJ TIL there was a town named Whizbang in the USA. Local civil leaders considered the name "undignified", so the post office calls it "Denoya" instead.
OGy9Y TIL Jim Corbett, the famous hunter of man eating lions and tigers in the early 1900's had a movie made based on his life. It was so bad he said of the movie that "The best actor was the tiger."
OoKR4 TIL Mew was to be an obtainable pokemon in red and blue but was scratched due the lack of cartridge space, which is one of the many reasons pokemon became so popular.
J1XZB TIL that Audrey Hepburn’s parents were fascists during the 1930s and early 40s. Her mother changed her mind when, living in the German-occupied Netherlands, her brother-in-law was executed for something he didn’t do and her son was deported to a German labor camp.