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GY4Z1 Today I learned that when Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, many Greek-Romans came to Egypt as tourist. Many of them ended up carving their names stating “so and so was here, and the work of these Egyptians are great” in the tombs of the Valley of the Kings.
696aY TIL Michael Phelps contemplated suicide after the 2012 Olympics, in which he won four gold and two silver medals.
vPk1r TIL The whole second verse of Rihanna's song "SOS" is made up of 1980s song titles strung together as sentences. The verse includes phrases like "Take On Me", "I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight", "I Melt With You", "Head Over Heels", "You Keep Me Hanging On" and "The Way You Make Me Feel".
oRJ0L TIL about Ssgt Reckless, a beer drinking war horse who, amoung other honors, had 2 Purple Hearts, and had to essentially be smuggled to the US after the Korean War when officials expressed preferences to leaving her behind or "destroying" her.
O6xX TIL In the USA Ice Cream has to have milkfat. So Vegan Ice Cream cannot be called Ice Cream