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TIL that the ancient Egyptian god Set tried to prove his dominance by having sex with Horus. However, Horus threw Set's semen into a river, and spread his own on some lettuce (Set's favourite food). After eating the lettuce, Horus used the fact that his semen was inside Set to become ruler of Egypt

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X0wVQ TIL Col. Shaw carried a famous sword into his final battle, depicted in the film Glory (1989). Thought to be stolen by a Confederate soldier after his death, it was actually retrieved by one of his black soldiers. The sword was kept in the Shaw family attic for over 150 years and is now at MASSHIST.
R7lyl TIL fearing invasion during the Cold War, Albania’s leader Enver Hoxha forced his country to build 750.000 bunkers. Today, many of those bunkers have been converted into a variety of uses, like turning them into pizzerias, espresso bars and makeshift bars.
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wL888 TIL that not all infinites are equal and some infinities are bigger than others. For example, there are more numbers between 1 and 3 (ex. 2.4805) than there are between 1 and 2. Both are infinite but one is more vast than the other.
dDAVQ TIL During the Iran/Contra scandal, US President Ronald Reagan’s White House aides thought he was “Inattentive and Inept” and that Article 25 needed to be considered as a way to remove him from office.