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TIL Alexander The Great named around 70 cities after himself.

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nen0P TIL the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) helped bring the first case of child abuse to court in 1874. At the time, there were laws against abusing animals but no laws against abusing human children.
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WZn4 TIL when spelling out the Javanese alphabet it forms a poem, translated: “There (were) two messengers. (They) had animosity (among each other). (They were) equally powerful (in fight). Here are the corpses.”