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TIL: Alexander the Great never lost a battle

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Z8nav TIL of Ventilator 202, a popular 80’s live radio show in Beograd, Yugoslavia, which would occasionally broadcast computer games audio for listeners to record on tapes and run on Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and other tape based computers.
koke TIL that in a scene in Saving Private Ryan two “German” soldiers who are shot trying to surrender were speaking Czech. They were saying, “Please don’t shoot me, I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone, I am Czech!”
yQkQl TIL that most animals are digitigrade, i.e., they walk on their digits or toes. Birds, cats, dogs etc are examples and what most people think are knees are actually their ankles. Humans are plantigrades ,i.e., they walk on the flats of their feet
x64R1 TIL: In 1966, James Meredith, the first black man to be integrated into The University of Mississippi, organized a one man march to encourage African Americans to vote. Shortly into his march, he was shot in the neck, head, and back. Mr. Meredith is still alive.
VMNDD TIL Phil Collins sang the songs for "Disney's Tarzn" fully in german for the german synchronization.