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TIL Italy was never a province of the Roman Empire, it instead had the special administrative status of "Domina provinciarum" meaning "ruler of the provinces"

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dDwKd TIL after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the USS West Virginia battleship was salvaged six months later. During the salvage operation, a calendar was discovered in an airtight room indicating three sailors survived for another 16 days after the event.
R7oyw TIL Roald Dahl (writer of charlie and the chocolate factory) also wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice
BWje TIL Signal Reception Bars on your phone don’t indicate how good or bad your reception is
PPNZ TIL that Stalin believed religion to be a blight upon communist society. Over 100,000 members of the Russian Orthodox clergy were killed by the regime between 1937 and 1941.
M7xEV TIL that roosters don’t have a penis. They pump their sperm into females using a 'cloacal kiss'