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TIL “Infantry” sounds like “infant” as typically in ancient times an army’s infantry consisted of soldiers too young or too inexperienced to ride a horse and be part of the cavalry.

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XEVlQ TIL in 2007, biologists discovered a harpoon from the 1800s lodged in a 50-ton Bowhead whale, leading them to believe the whale was at least 115 years old. This would place the whale in the Victorian Era. The Bowhead is believed to live up to 200 years.
6Ey9m TIL There’s a newly discovered Pygmy Seahorse Species called Hippocampus Nalu—nalu referring to “here it is” since it was known to locals prior to its scientific discovery
9wWGm TIL Orion, the son of god Poseidon and Euryale, had the ability to walk on water.
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78YMb TIL "Where In North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego?" exists, developed by Broderbund and Minot Public Schools for the 1989 North Dakota Centennial. With 5,000 copies sold and only 3 known to have survived, it's considered "one of the rarest video games ever made."