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TIL The national anthem of Italy mentiones Poland and the national anthem of Poland mentions Italy, both in a positive way.

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aOjZ TIL that Xerxes the First of Persia, who faced the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae, is also a prominent character in the Biblical book of Esther.
R9B4 TIL that a skyscraper in London has melted cars with focused light due to its parabolic shape.
G5Vg TIL Poisoning the well is a rhetorical device where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say
Lko0 TIL In August, 1864 President Lincoln lost his hat when his horse was startled by a loud noise. The hat was recovered later with a “bullet hole through the crown.” The loud noise had been an assassination attempt by an unknown sniper.
wLoyE TIL of Suryash Dixit, who declared himself ruler of Bir Tawil, an unclaimed territory between Egypt and Sudan.