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TIL about the Sacred Band of Thebes, which was a company of 150 pairs of homosexual lovers, who were considered amongst the most elite soldiers of their time.

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oB7ro TIL the prop used as Radar O'Reilly's teddy bear in MAS*H was a 1950s-vintage Cubbi Gund Cuddle Bear. Considering the television show was set during the Korean War, the prop master chose a Teddy bear that would have been appropriate for the time period.
6EwkX TIL: When the dinosaurs were alive there were erupting volcanoes on the moon.
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loM05 TIL that to this day, the Turkish government refuses to acknowledge that there was an Armenian genocide in WWI, claiming that the 1.5 million were merely relocated.