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TIL: Alexander the Great never lost a battle

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DQgpr TIL learned Kyiv’s mayor is a former heavyweight boxing champion
MK98 TIL in Sept 1940 the UK sent the US documents for improved radar, the jet engine, feasibility of an atomic bomb, rocket designs, plastic explosives & more; tech that would lead to victory, the nuclear age, jet age & said to be the “most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores”; in a single trunk.
XalP TIL of Jack Ketch, an English executioner in the 1600s whose name became synomoymous with Satan, death and excecutioner because of the brutal inefficiency of his excecutions
8DyK TIL of Nzinga, a 17th century queen in Angola who had a harem of men that had to fight to be with her and were put to death after a night of pleasure
d8DPj TIL there was a funded study on impact of piracy on sales which results were withheld by EU presumably due to finding no negative impact