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TIL that U.S. Marines significantly damaged the Babylon ruins during the Iraq invasion in 2003

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BrMgr TIL During E3 2009 a small protest made up of people claiming to be from a local church was held in objection to EA's game Dantes Inferno. Some protesters went as far as to call EA the antichrist. Confirming the suspicions of many, EA later admitted that the protest was a hoax to promote their game.
KYbPa TIL in a 2016 study, 72 incidents were reviewed of humpback whales interfering w/ orcas hunting mammals. 61 involved prey species other than humpbacks despite "no apparent benefit" for their intervention leading the authors to conclude that "interspecific altruism" could not be ruled out.
QNEdL TIL that Harriet Tubman believed John Brown did more for the black Americans than Abraham Lincoln did.
Z8krG TIL the easternmost province in Nepal is literally named "Province No. 1". It is one of three provinces named like this in the country, the others being No. 2 and No. 5.
MeOPA TIL in 2009, speakers of Swabian German, a very distinct southern German dialect, voted Muggeseggele (=“scrotum of a housefly”) as the “Most beautiful Swabian word”, well ahead of any other terms. It is used to describe very small units of measure.