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TIL The battle of Pelusium between ancient Egypt and Persia concluded in the Egyptians surrendering after seeing the image of their beloved goddess Bastet painted on the Persians' shields and animals they hold dear in the front line.

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PYg7Z TIL There's a zip file titled '42.zip'. It's known as a zip bomb or 'zip of death' because it's original size is only 42 kilobytes. But when it's uncompressed, it expands to 4.5 petabytes (4,500,000 gigabytes), crashing the antivirus program and then the system.
p8OVO TIL Scientists found that if they made fibers out of biodegradable bioplastics that they had an astonishing strength of 580,000 pounds per square inch. The fibers are used within bioplastics themselves to self reinforce.
6EMA8 TIL sea otters have the densest fur in the world, with around 140,000 hairs per sq cm
x6kZD TIL Limp Bizkit was the last band to play atop the World Trade Center. September 2000.
Rp46 TIL of Charlotte, a young girl who was experiencing 300 grand mal seizures a week until she was treated with marijuana. That specific strand is now called Charlotte’s Web.