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Bg1KL TIL Tyre, Lebanon (the fourth largest city in Lebanon) is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, which has been around for over 4,000 years
5Y5aQ TIL of Operation Vegetarian a British WWII project to introduce anthrax into German beef and dairy herds and possibly spread to the human population.
oBVvL TIL There is an island which changes sovereignty every 6 months. Less than 7000 sq metres, in a river on the Spain-France border, Pheasant Island is ceremonially exchanged between the two countries every February and July, according to a peace treaty which was signed on the island in 1659
Wk1X TIL before the Hubble Space Telescope was launched scientists were convinced the Universe was no longer expanding. Not only is the Universe still expanding but at a rate of 74 kilometers (48 miles) per second.
xJg1 TIL: Twisted Sister did 3,000 club perfomances and sold out the Palladium theater in NYC all without a recording contract or radio airplay. No one in the biz would touch them. TS ended up pressing their own albums and before finally getting a deal with a small UK punk label.