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TIL beginning in 46 B.C., in celebration of Julius Caesar's return to Rome after defeating Pompey the Great, the Colosseum was ordered to be flooded for a ship battle reenactment in honor of his military efforts against Gaul & Egypt.

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wj7o TIL that Einstein was stopped so much in public, he would reply, “Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.”
1PXr TIL that the Great Dane was first bred in Germany, not Denmark, for Boar hunting. It is the national dog of Germany, where it is known as a German Mastiff.
RMDj TIL in 1956 Soviets proposed a joint project to build a dam across Bering Strait in order to warm the Arctic Ocean but it wasn’t found practicable by the US
BnK TIL JK Rowling seriously considered killing off Ron Weasley mid-series because she was ‘in an unhappy place.’
oaWE TIL that an eight day long riot occurred in 1922 because people were wearing “summer hats” past the socially decided date of summer