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TIL a species of pig, the Barbirusas, has tusks that can grow long enough to penetrate its own skull, killing it

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nWLNd TIL that Alexander the Great once put on a staged naval battle using his favorite food as their weapons, apples.
nWEA7 TIL that the Abu Simbel temples are so far south of Egypt that they are only 20 kilometers from the border with Sudan
JY4Nv TIL In '72 Billy Joel got into a legal battle with his label and was forbidden from recording. He moved to LA and played at a bar under an assumed name to earn money. This was the inspiration for the song "Piano Man". All the characters in the song were based on real people Joel had met at the bar.
0wKYR TIL legal scholars use the terms malum prohibitum and malum in se to distinguish between offences which are legally or morally forbidden. The former is wrong simply for rules prohibiting them whilst the latter is wrong as it is seen as an innately immoral act.
Brpy TIL that the sudden feeling of falling that occurs occasionally when one dozes off is actually a mild epileptic seizure and has been suggested to be connected with déjà vu.