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TIL of Aeschylus, an ancient Greek tragedian, who died in 456 or 455 BC when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his bald head mistaking it for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile.

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xGdw TIL of Miniatur Wunderland, the largest, most complex and most expensive model train set in the world.
X0A5D TIL about Wadi-us-Salaam (lit: The Valley of Peace) - located in Najaf, Iraq. It's the biggest necropolis in the world. Daily burials have been on going for over 1,400 years, over 6 million people are buried there.
0dJL1 TIL: Powdered milk is used as a prop on film industry to resemble cocaine, yes it’s snort it too.
wLVnJ TIL that the copy of Charlie Hebdo magazine released after the terror attack, sold nearly 8 million copies, compared to their prior usual of 60,000 copies.
pYynQ TIL about The Pegging Act of 1943 (South Africa) which laid down that Indians should not be granted the right to acquire or own property in the area reserved for the Whites for a period of three years. This was 5 years before the official Apartheid laws were passed.