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TIL the success of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution has been attributed in part to soccer hooligans, whose experience in street brawling and resisting police was useful in protecting the mass demonstrations in Tahrir Square from being cleared out by police.

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WOGL TIL that Magnum and Magnum XL condoms are no bigger than standard size trojan condoms. It is a psychological method of getting customers to pay a premium.
wL878 TIL: A viewer of "America's Most Wanted" called to report that he'd seen the kidnapped girl who was featured. The authorities investigated and found that while she wasn't the girl featured, she had been kidnapped years ago, and reunited her with her mother.
LQQX0 TIL Goldfish can recognise classical music. A study was done in which researchers played Bach and Stravinsky. The fish were first trained to bite a bead when they heard both, then only one and not the other, and finally just different clips of one. One fish preferred Bach and avoided Stravinsky.
rNDBW TIL that Bartolomé de las Casas was a Spanish priest who kept insisting to the crown of Spain that the war against the native americans was deeply immoral and a sin. It's interesting because we consider it to be a recent idea, but this man was born in 1484.
GbK5 TIL Iranians still use the ancient form of air conditioning called the badgir. It is a tower with vents on top and allows cool air to accelerate down into a building. Zion National Park in Utah has a modern example of this, where temps reach over 100 F, the visitors center stays at cool 73 F.