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TIL the Capitol of the Omani empire was moved from Oman (Muscat, Arabian peninsula) to Zanzibar (Africa) in 1840

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BrA5d TIL the first submarine attack on a ship occurred in 1864, when the CSS Hunley sank the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic using a spar torpedo, a primitive form of torpedo that was, in essence, a bomb on the end of a stick encased in a motor boat.
x6561 TIL the Mercenary War (264–241 BC), also called the Truceless War, saw Carthage having to fight the mercenaries it previously hired due to a dispute over the payment of wages arrears, joined by revolting cities in the hinterland
dvXj TIL - The French proposed the use of ‘Decimal’ time, with 10 hours in a day, and 100 minutes in an hour, etc.
Brgry TIL of Hyperloop, a new type of transportation using electric propulsion through a low-pressure tube to move people and freight up to 670 mph or 1080 kph.
poBQ TIL that Truman Show director Peter Weir had initially wanted to have cameras installed in every theater the movie was shown in, having the projectionist at one point cut the lights, cut to the viewers, and then cut back to the movie