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TIL that before he became emperor, it was predicted that Roman emperor Caligula had “no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae” After becoming emperor he built a 2 mile long bridge across the bay and proceeded to ride his horse across it.

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d8QB TIL Allan Moore’s 1986 graphic novel, “Watchmen” discusses “DUB music.” The character Ozymandias calls it “a sort of music of the future, a result of technological advances transcending the cultural barriers they set up”
WkV0Y TIL: The US tried to hide nuclear missiles in Greenland without Danish knowledge in Project Iceworm.
0dmpp TIL that chimpanzees also wage wars. The Gombe Chimpanzee War pitted two groups against each other for four years.
nedOr TIL that the correlation between kids spending time indoors reading books and poor eyesight is due to Vitamin D deficiency.
1e7P TIL that Polynesian sailors still navigate the oceans using nothing but the stars, the moon, the movement of the waves etc.