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TIL of the Sea Peoples. They were a group of raiders and pirates that nearly toppled ancient Egypt, conquering almost half the country. Archaeologists do not know anything about where they came from or who they went afterwards.

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VBgmD TIL Cmdr. Billie J. Farrell is the first woman in 224 years to command the U.S.S. Constitution. The oldest active Navy ship in the U.S.
9kJB TIL during the Chernobyl, three engineers volunteered to dive into a pool of radioactive hydrogen peroxide with no working flashlights and open a pipe to stop the reactor from exploding. They succeeded.
0dN0y TIL that WS Simkins, the man who is credited with firing the first shot in the US Civil War, also had a severe foot fetish and went on to fund a five-year expedition to find the perfect foot, which ended in failure.
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