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TIL when Spartans lost the battle of Megalopolis, their king Agis III, now wounded and unable to stand, ordered his men to leave him behind to face Macedonian army so that he could buy his men time to retreat. He slew several enemy soldiers before being finally killed by a javelin.

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16vwD TIL there were various hippopotami-based deities over ancient Egyptian civilisation. Taweret protected birth and childrearing co-existed with Ipet, whose "white, dazzling, sweet milk" facilitated the afterlife. Later came Ammit to devour the unjust. All goddess hippos had pendulous human breasts
vWm8 TIL the rotary phone was invented by an undertaker. The operator in his hometown was married to his competition, so the rotary dial was a way to bypass the human operator.
5YO8 TIL Patsy Cline was nearly killed in two separate accidents, and subsequently told her friends to take care of her children because she felt that a third and final one was on the way. She died in a plane crash one week later.
kJnLE TIL that there is a well in England that has water that can turn any object into stone.
e79E TIL that there are more Trees in the US today than there were 100 years ago