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TIL that on September 8, 2040, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn will all align within a 10° patch of sky in a rare celestial event called the “Golden Conjunction.”

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60Xm TIL that during the Second Angle-Afghan War, Afghan women would use an execution method against the British where they would prop the soldiers mouth open to prevent swallowing and then take turns urinating into the soldiers mouth to drown him with urine
e0KmJ TIL that David Bowie declined knighthood and other awards from the Queen because and he explained: 'It’s not what I spent my life working for.”"
mxjmP TIL a group of Elephant is called a "Memory" and that the plural of "Elephant" is "Elephant."
jN89j TIL the patron saint of horses and prisons, Hippolytus, was also one of the first antipopes.
69D17 TIL that in 168 BC, Roman ambassador Popillius Laenas met the Seleucid king Antiochus IV to stop the war with Egypt. But when the king sought time to consult, Popillius drew a circle around him and said: "Before leaving this circle, you will give me a reply that I can take back to the Roman Senate."