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TIL Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.

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d8MOE TIL When the Vikings made it to Constantinople during the 9th century AD, some of them carved their names in runic inscriptions inside Hagia Sophia - still visible to this day.
ADp7g TIL that the first Olympics had an event called Pankration, a mix of wrestling and boxing where the only restrictions were of biting/gouging. Breaking digits and dislocating limbs was common, the battle only ending in death/surrender. The Greeks invented sports medicine in response to this event.
o6aE TIL the highest troop concentration in the history of counter-insurgency warfare was not in Iraq, or Afghanistan, but in Ireland, where the British stationed 20 troops for every 1000 civilians during the peak of The Troubles
LkLPQ TIL that Ivory Coast built a church copied from the St. Peter's Basilica to surpass it as the highest church in the world. Upon completion the pope only agreed to consecrate it, if the overall height was lower than the Vatican Basilica and if there would be built a hospital next to it.
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