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TIL spartan soldiers in ancient Greece had homosexual relationships to “boost morale” and gain “strong emotional relationships”

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kpge TIL that the Creation Museum in Kentucky has an Allosaurus skeleton which is over 115 million years old, but teaches in the museum that Earth is only 6,000 years old.
mrZx TIL Employees of Lego carry around Lego Minifigures with their names on them instead of Business Cards
8e7YZ TIL: That two days before Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, the BBC was taken off air with little warning, the last programme to be shown being a Mickey Mouse cartoon. The government was concerned that the VHF transmissions would act as a a beacon to enemy aircraft that could bomb London.
J1K8V TIL of the Samoan crisis, in which the US, British and German navies were in a standoff over the control of Samoa. That standoff only ended when the 1889 Apia cyclone wrecked the US and German fleets, with only the British corvette, HMS Calliope, surviving the storm.
R7MG1 TIL the Occam's razor isn't the only philosophical razor, and there even is one called Newton's flaming laser sword which states "what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating"