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TIL Texas was it’s own country for ten years

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x6xp1 TIL that in 1666, the Indian Maratha Emperor Shivaji and his son were arrested by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and imprisoned in Agra. Both of them then escaped by hiding in boxes of sweets that Shivaji claimed to be distributing to the poor as "a penance to God" after claiming to be ill.
p0wA TIL a team of Material Scientists at the University of Texas Dallas have developed artificial muscle that is 100X stronger than organic muscle and is constructed out of ordinary fishing line.
oRo8A TIL about Bishnu Shrestha, a Nepalese-Ghurka soldier who went up against 30+ train robbers after they tried SAing an 18yo near him. He refused money offered by her family, saying "Fighting the enemy in battle is my duty as a soldier. Taking on the thugs on the train was my duty as a human being".
Akgw TIL up until the 1850’s there was no “left and right” shoe, all were identical
0dMRp Til that equivalents of earthquakes on Mars are called marsquakes