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TIL 'Changes' is a cover

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awvJM TIL Gladiators didn't normally fight to the death, as they were too expensive to prepare and maintain, making it to risky of a business to sustain. For there to be a fight to the death, a sponsor would have to pay extra and also compensate the lanista for the lost gladiator.
WkEwY TIL of the Fisher Protocol, an idea where nuclear launch code would be implanted in a volunteer. If the President really want to launch a nuclear strike, he had to kill the volunteer.
v1WdR TIL Sloths can carry a third of their body weight in feces, only poop once a week, and often die in the process because they have to come down to the ground to do it.
Jmdv TIL London only reached its pre-WW2 population level in January, 2015.
yb18 TIL the stormtroopers in Star Wars are left-handed