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TIL The world's oldest known sex toy is 30,000 years old. It is a dildo which also doubled up as a tool for lighting fires

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yYxl TIL Stalin ordered in 1941 to open the tomb of the 14th century warlord Tamerlane. There was an inscription that read “Whoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I”. Germany launched the invasion to the USSR that very day.
VMR5G TIL surgically cropping a dog's ears or docking its tail can artificially alter the way dogs communicate with other dogs and humans. These procedures can have a significant impact on how dogs communicate and interact for the rest of their lives.
E15ed TIL of the old jewish cemetery in prague. Dating back to 1478, it has gotten full so many times and they just kept adding layers. Now there are 12 layers of graves stacked on top of each other. There are about 12,000 visible tombstones but over 100,000 people buried there.
epj1L TIL that "Let all brave Prussians follow me!" was Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin last words, immediately after he was struck and killed by a cannonball
awNM TIL that Royal Navy Able Seacat, Simon (a real cat), was awarded medals for raising morale and killing rats aboard a navy ship