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TIL of Rubble, Currently The World's Oldest Living Cat. He Will Be 32 Next Month!

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m1X0y TIL That many samurai swords got transferred to the United States as war loot after WW2. Including the legendary sword Honjo Masamune which had been transferred from ruler to ruler, whose fate is currently unknown.
D1k9g TIL Bon Scott of AC/DC once tried to join the Australian Army, but was rejected on the grounds of being "socially maladjusted".
X4EE TIL that the phrase “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” comes from St. Ambrose who would switch his Milanese patterns of fasting to those of the Romans whenever he stayed in Rome.
gMl08 TIL Standard Arabic, the Arabic taught in a majority of schools, is based off of the language Prophet Mohammad spoke. It is a language that nobody naturally speaks, and is preserved through formal education and news broadcasts. Egyptian Arabic is the most widely-understood dialect
vPXmr TIL salt and pepper didn’t collab with each other until the 17th century.