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TIL of the discovery of the San Jose Shipwreck. Considered the Holy Grail of Shipwrecks, its loot is valued at $17B in Gold, Silver and Emeralds. The ship went down on Jun 8, 1708 and was lost at sea until 2015 off the coast of Columbia. Its exact location is kept secret today.

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OGj8e TIL in the 52 BCE Battle of Alesia, Julius Caesar’s troops built 25 miles of earthen walls in a few weeks, including spiked trenches, hidden pits, water-filled moats, wooden walls, stakes with iron hooks, and hundreds of lookout towers. The Gauls lost 290,000 troops, to Caesar’s 12,800 casualties.
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b6MrN TIL Nolan Bushnell played Spacewar! in a computer lab in the 1960s. The only computers capable of running the game at the time cost more than $100,000. Bushnell decided he didn't need a computer and used affordable custom hardware to create "Computer Space" housed in a futuristic cabinet
apJy TIL that Wrigley’s Gum was the first product to have a bar code
5Rn TIL Anton-Babinski syndrome is a rare condition in which a blind person doesn’t realize that they are blind.