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6E07m TIL Persian leader Cyrus the Great liberated the Jewish people from captivity in Babylon 538 BCE. Isaiah 45:1 of the Hebrew Bible even refers to him as a messiah and he is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called so.
YpELr TIL that Dinosaurs were already heading for extinction before the asteroid strike that sealed their fate.
Rww9 TIL a man named Wally Wallington proved that with rudimentary tools it is possible to move thousands of pounds of stone and even entire buildings single-handed, and is constructing Stonehenge: RELOADED in his Flint, Michigan backyard.
pYAEp TIL that the gentoo penguin is capable to reach speeds up to 36 km/h, making him the fastest underwater swimmers of all penguins.
1aBAV TIL Listerine was invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic. It was later sold, in distilled form, as both a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea...