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TIL Joe Strummer, from The Clash, wept when he learned “Rock the Casbah” was written on a bomb dropped during Operation Desert Storm.

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EBnx TIL that the English word oil comes from the ancient Greek word elaia, which means olive. So olive oil basically means olive olive.
o1pK TIL there’s a caterpillar called the Jewel Caterpillar in the Amazon Rainforest that looks like a walking gummy worm.
LL9P TIL Texas no longer offers a special “last meal” to condemned inmates. Instead, the inmate is offered the same meal served to the rest of the unit.
Mvj8 TIL when London Mayor Sadiq Khan was sworn in, he was told to bring his own Koran. Buckingham Palace tried to return it to him afterwards but he said they should keep it for the next guy.
e0Lvn TIL that sections of the Great Wall of China were first built in the 7th century BC to try and stop the constant invading and pillaging by Mongol hordes. This indicates by the time Genghis Khan was born, Mongols had a 𝘡𝘸𝘰 𝘡𝘩𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘒𝘯π˜₯ year history of being intimidating war-saavy plunderers.