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TIL Dexter Holland of The Offspring published scientific findings in PLoS One in 2013

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Oo8pa TIL Xerxes built two pontoon bridges over the Dardanelles strait to move his troops into Macedonia. When a storm destroyed the bridges, Xerxes had the builders beheaded and sent his army to whip, yell at, and brand the waters. The bridges were never rebuilt. Xerxes later lost the war with Macedonia.
0dpnR TIL before 1923 in UK, only men were allowed to file for divorce and only in the case of adultery. In 1923 Matrimonial causes act was passed which gave the same right to women. Further in 1937, additional grounds for divorce such as cruelty, desertion, etc. were offered.
D1Xmg TIL that the National Hockey League played a season with only three teams in it.
p0OA TIL Koreans donated billions of euros’ worth of gold jewelry, personal heirlooms, and other valuables to help pay down the nation’s IMF debt in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis
JDy4 TIL the Nazis developed experimental drug cocktail in which the Nazi doctors found that equipment-laden test subjects who had taken the drug could march 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) without resting