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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.

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lda TIL that the world’s 15 largest shipping vessels produce more air pollution than all of world’s 750 million cars.
Jxxm TIL that Woodrow Wilson signed into law “The Seditions Act of 1918” making it illegal to speak out against the Government with imprisonment terms of 5-20 years
l1v7 TIL There are three-dimensional shapes which roll as smoothly as spheres which are not spheres
WWVX TIL The Iron Giant was remastered and released in 2015 with a new scene shedding ‘some’ light on the Giant’s origin/purpose.
e0814 TIL there exists a Linguistic Diversity Index: the probability [0-1] that 2 people selected from at random will have different mother tongues. Papua New Guinea comes first with a score of 0.988 as it has over 820 indigenous languages. Some other scores ~ India: 0.914, USA: 0.333, UK: 0.154