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TIL about the Sea Peoples, a group of tribes that invaded Ancient Egypt around 1200 BCE and might have had a decisive influence on bringing the Late Bronze Age to an end. However, scholars are not sure who the Sea Peoples were, or where they lived.

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DVRY TIL that Merriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark fame, committed suicide three years after the great American expedition.
Be1b TIL in 2014, South Korean Christians put up a Christmas tree visible from the North Korean Border. North Korea responded by calling it a “tool for psychological warfare” and threatened to bomb it.
JKvB TIL: St Augustine, who lived in the 4th century, advocated that god should have made use of natural, evolutionary, original causes in the production of man’s body. He believed it was the soul that was created through a supernatural process, the body was created through a natural evolutionary process
oOK TIL that in 2009, a Guatemalan committed suicide by taking out a contract on himself using a hitman. He hoped this would help overthrow the current government and save the country.
wGo1 TIL: At the age of 76, Holocaust survivor Liviu Librescu gave his life to protect 23 students during the Virginia Tech massacre. After his death, he was honored with the highest civil order Romania can bestow, the Order of the Star of Romania.