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TIL there are seven NFL teams currently without cheerleaders

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v1QVD TIL a robot once boarded at LAX airport, with a valid German passport and a ticket to Frankfurt
0dvEj TIL following the destruction of the Iberian city of Illiturgis by Publius Cornelius Scipio in 206 BC, the people from the neighbouring city of Astapa–knowing they faced a similar fate, decided to burn the city with all of its treasures and then kill themselves.
6lDJ TIL France killed 45,000 Algerian civilians in two weeks in 8th of May 1945 who did nothing but went out to the streets demanding independence that they were promised after WWII
rRR81 TIL Napoleon's grandnephew was a US lieutenant.
noVY TIL that UC Davis researchers devised a test for bomb and drug-sniffing dogs. They put dogs through 144 runs of a clean room with no drugs or explosives. But the dogs indicated on 123 runs, indicating a failure rate of 85% according to the test’s criteria.