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TIL the 2000 yr old Syrian soap industry finally returned to Aleppo. Their laurel soap is the oldest soap in the world.

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E1o07 TIL there is no meaning behind Bosnia's national flag. Due to the war in the 90's, every attempt to unite the country under one flag was rejected by all ethnic groups. The UN created a flag that could not be linked to Bosnia's past in any way.
QNgkE TIL that for one species of moth, the male will shoot layers of hairs drenched in plant toxins onto the female to protect her from predators while he mates with her because copulation takes such a long time. This practice is called protective nuptial festooning!
XDAQ TIL a nine year-old boy robbed a New York bank in 1981 and got away with $118.
1aRo7 TIL that a conman, J.D. McMahon, managed to collect $200,000 from investors in building a 40 ft-tall (480 in or 12 m) building- the infamous Newby-McMahon Building, also known as the world's littlest skyscraper. McMahon neglected to specify that the building’s scale was measured in inches, not feet.
om1A TIL micro sd cards have a theoretical maximum storage capacity of 2 TB !