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TIL: Tom Cruise is obsessed with sending his co-stars cakes, even ones he worked with decades ago. Louis Theroux, documentary maker, even went to his grandmother's 100th Birthday Party to find 100 cupcakes from Tom Cruise, after Tom worked with his cousin.

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PYZEn TIL that in order to appease Persia for killing their ambassadors, Sparta sent two young noblemen volunteers, Bulis and Sperthias, to offer themselves to be executed in atonement. Xerxes sent the men back, saying that he would not sink to Sparta's level and did not consider Sparta's guilt loosened.
l7lL7 TIL about flavius aetius. A military commander considered to be the most powerful man in the Western Roman Empire during the last phase of its decline and fall. He was most famously known for defeating Attila the Hun at the Battle of Catalaunian Fields. He was known was the last of the Roman’s.
kMDe TIL of The Smokey Bear effect which was an indirect result of the Smokey Bear campaign. The Smokey Bear campaign has been so successful at preventing forest fires that it has allowed trees and debris to pile up on the forest floor, indirectly resulting in forest fires that burn larger and hotter.
6EYrl TIL William Willburforce and Pitt - as 23 year old uni mates who became MPs - went on a Lads on Tour holiday to meet up with Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. When the lads returned Pitt was immediately made Prime Minister & Wilburforce went on to abolish slavery
pekQ TIL Peter Falk lost his right eye to cancer at the age of three. He wore a glass eye in its place, which gave him his trademark squint.