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TIL Alexander the Great wept when he heard Anaxarchus teach about an infinite number of worlds. When his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?"

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pV8A TIL the shape of an animal’s eye tells whether it’s hunter or prey - sheep have horizontal pupils so they can better see predators while grazing
ya0J TIL that Shakespeare’s works take on a different meaning when performed with an era-appropriate accent instead of a modern one, often introducing rhymes or puns that don’t work in modern pronunciations.
ONrg TIL in the 1936 Olympics, promoted by Hitler to prove that whites are superior, Peru beat Austria 4-2 on soccer, even though they had 3 other goals nullified. Later, the Olympic Comitee nullified the match and scheduled a rematch, to be taken under close grounds. Peru withdrew from the Olympics
BgK8r TIL that Oswald Freisler, a German lawyer during the 1930s, would wear his Nazi Party badge to court when defending political prisoners, sometimes even securing acquittals. He "committed suicide" in 1939.
GYPeN TIL About Mathias Rust: A West German teenager who in 1987; sought to create an "imaginary bridge" to the Eastern Bloc by flying a Cessna 172 to the Soviet Union and landing on a bridge next to Red Square