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TIL that Romans would tell your fortune via pissing in a pot.

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AmmB TIL of Tony Stein. On the first day if the assault on Iwo Jima, Stein cleared multiple enemy pillboxes using his custom M1919 machine gun named “Stinger.” During the assault he made a total of 8 trips back to the beach to reload on ammunition and carried a wounded soldier on his back each trip.
NX0e TIL: Battleships are obsolete and all have been decommissioned worldwide.
4gro TIL A Man once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces.
9mGQ TIL in 2007, the House of Representatives of Oklahoma declared the watermelon, a fruit, their state vegetable.
8a48K TIL NASA tried to get Big Bird to go on a space shuttle mission to inspire kids, and he would have died if he did (in the Challenger space shuttle disaster).