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TIL that political opponents used to insult each other with the label "Pharaoh" before Hitler came around.

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pYZYG TIL Sorcery is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia
aLZ0 TIL Marines taught Sergeant Reckless, a horse who held official rank in the United States military, battlefield survival skills such as how not to become entangled in barbed wire and to lie down when under fire. She learned to run for a bunker upon hearing the cry, “incoming!”
lrPr TIL Vikings sailed with cats to keep rodent problem in check on the ships, this is believed to have caused the second wave of cat expansion around the world
R7P04 TIL that Michelson-Morley experiments (to prove a theory competing with special relativity) are still being conducted, with the first one dating back to 1881
ne6Kr TIL following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Walt Disney Studios was taken over and converted by the U.S. Army into an anti-aircraft base in fears that Japanese bombers would soon reach Los Angeles. It remained the only time a Hollywood studio came under military occupation in history.