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TIL that the famous World Heritage site of Babylon’s most recent addition of destruction was by Saddam Hussein who built a fake Babylon honoring himself on top of the ruins. It was further destroyed by US and Polish troops whose base was built on the ruins and ran over artifacts with tanks.

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KKGR TIL that Turkish people drink more tea than British people.
eJP4 TIL: The Man who Saved More Jews than Schindler: Ho Feng-Shan. He risked his own life and career to save thousands of Jews in WWII as a Chinese diplomat in Vienna.
yVZDa TIL a repairman caused $700,000,000 in damage to the USS Miami submarine by intentionally starting a fire to get out of work early.
1a9Zd TIL in 2008 German actor Daniel Hoevels accidentally cut his own throat on stage in a “suicide scene” when he was given a real knife by mistake.
m1aJy TIL in 1940, when Paramount asked Fleischer Studios to created a Superman cartoon, Fleischer thought it would be too hard to make. In an attempt to avoid making the cartoon, they quoted four times the cost of an average cartoon for the budget ($100k). To their shock, Paramount agreed to the budget.