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TIL that Claudius was a very unusual Roman emperor because he was exclusively attracted to women.

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KOnl6 TIL of the Bat Bomb, an experimental American WW2 weapon - a large canister filled with 1,040 bats, each carrying their own weight in napalm. Despite promising results, development progressed too slowly and the Bat Bob was abandoned in favour of the atomic bomb.
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7rvoO TIL about Polish photographer Zofia Rydet, who at the age of 67 began her project 'Sociological Record' to document every household in Poland. She took over 20,000 photographs before her death in 1997.
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