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E0P0 TIL During the Mongols sack of Baghdad they destroyed the fabled House of Wisdom and threw so many books into the Tigris that it ran black from the ink
WGLA TIL Pound town is a town in Wisconsin
9YRvQ TIL that King Alfonso XIII of Spain was King immediately after being born, since his father Alfonso XII had died aged just 28, while the Queen was still pregnant.
KO54Q TIL Harvard University (founded 1636) temporarily lost the title of "oldest university in the United States" when the US colonized the Philippines (1899-1946), as Manila's Universidad de Santo Tomas (founded 1611) predated Harvard by 25 years.
GYrMJ TIL Thalaikoothal is the traditional practice of involuntary euthanasia, by their own family members, observed in some parts of southern districts of Tamil Nadu state of India.