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TIL It is illegal in 17 countries to deny the Holocaust
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TIL: in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
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TIL The Iconic "Pac-Man" Was Originally Going to Be a Pizza
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TIL An Ohio Judge, who each year would move a drunken-driving trial from his courtroom to a local high school as a cautionary tale to students, was arrested himself on a DUI after he hit a County bus, failed to stop, then refused a sobriety test after being pulled over by police
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TIL from a dictionary why the ancient Greek civilization of Sparta had no walls:“‘the Spartan king Agesilaus simply pointed to his fellow citizens, armed to the teeth, the most formidable soldiers in Greece: 'Here are the walls of the Spartans.’”
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TIL that scallops have up to 200 eyes and that they contain tiny crystals that act like concave mirrors like on the Hubble telescope