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TIL Being Clean Shaven Was Popularized By Alexander The Great Because He Couldn't Grow A Proper Beard

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4weo TIL the tradition for standing during the hallelujah chorus of Handel’s Messiah started because King George II stood during it at the first performance in England, and then everyone else had to stand up, and no one knows why George stood up.
BDBy TIL that between 1941-1944, Turkish diplomats saved thousands of Jews by issuing them Turkish passports and sometimes pulling them off trains headed for the death camps. Among these diplomats was Necdet Kent, whose son Muhtar Kent, is the current chairman and former chief executive of Coca-Cola.
yaQ8 TIL That facing defeat and surrounded by the Roman army, Hannibal sent oxen with torches tied to them toward the Roman camp, causing the Romans to send their entire army to meet the oxen while Hannibal and his men escaped through a mountain pass that the Romans had been blocking before the deception
8eljZ TIL that newborn giant pandas are proportionally the smallest baby of any placental mammal, being about 1/800 the mother's weight
X0opX TIL that Laurel & Hardy and the Our Gang kids reshot each film for foreign audiences by phonetically reciting their lines in the foreign language