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TIL Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler are reputed to have suffered from ailurophobia - the fear of cats.

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OGP4a Today I learned that there is an Australian High School that has had a a mummified head in their library for over 100 years.
5YwP9 TIL of the Manicouagan Reservoir, a 60 mile diameter lake in Northern Quebec created by a meteorite impact. The island in the center has a larger surface area than the lake itself, and it has been hypothesized that it was one of at least five impacts in a single event 200 million years ago
J7lV TIL that in Star Trek the voice of the Breen alien race was inspired by Lou Reed’s album Metal Machine Music, which the postproduction sound staff were instructed to listen to when creating the electronic cackle that served as the Breen’s voices.
LQVgQ TIL about Le Lignon, one of the largest apartment complexes in the world, containing 2,780 units. Located in Genève, CH, it houses over 6,000 residents with a population density that rivals that of Manhattan.
NZlb TIL If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on the planet, then you could fit all 6 billion of us inside a single apple.