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TIL In 1965, an excavation team discovered the Sword of Goujian in a tomb in Hubei, China. Encased in a nearly air-tight wooden box next to a skeleton. The sword is over 2500 years old but was in perfect condition, test affirmed that the blade could easily cut a stack of twenty pieces of paper.

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M7gl8 TIL of Bikini Atoll, a coral reef in the Marshall Islands which served as a nuclear test site for the US in WWII, and after which the bikini swimsuit and Spongebob's Bikini Bottom are named.
e0EGL TIL: The hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a Tigon. The hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger is called a Liger. A litigon is a rare second generation hybrid from a female tigon (a hybrid between a male tiger and a female lion) and a male lion ????
VMdbm TIL In 1842, Abraham Lincoln publicly chastised James Shields in the course of a debate about banking in Illinois. The ridicule led Shields to challenge Lincoln to a duel in which the victor took the opponents' life and pride. On the duel-day, they called a truce with the bystanders' encouragement.
AdpB TIL: An Italian artist wanted to hitch-hike to the Middle East to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people. She was found murdered in Turkey.
1Awd TIL on September 19, 1985, when Frank Zappa famously testified before Congress to protest the PMRC’s attempt to legislate and censor heavy metal music lyrics, Zappa compared the proposed legislation to “treating dandruff by decapitation”