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TIL Samosas were banned in Somalia because vendors were stuffing them with cat meat

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v1RbB TIL that Apelles, an ancient Greek painter, was considered by many, including Pliny, to be the greatest artist in the world. Pliny recorded that Alexander the Great so admired Apelles's work that he gave his concubine to him. Today, none of Apelles's original works have survived.
LQWJ0 TIL of Karel Soucek, who successfully went over Niagara Falls in a barrel and planned a museum about his stunt. To fund it he performed a stunt in which, inside a barrel, he would fall 180 feet from the roof of the Houston Astrodome into a water tank. The barrel hit the rim of the tank, killing him.
ANmW7 TIL that YouTube originally launched as a dating site.
PmKw TIL that inside the conqueror Tamerlane’s tomb in modern day Uzbekistan, it read “Whoever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Two days after the exhumation of his tomb, the Nazis invaded the USSR.
mxOEM TIL some female penguins engage in prostitution. Performing sex act in exchange for pebbles. However, sometimes they will just trick the male into thinking they’ll have sex, then run off once she gets the pebble.