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TIL of the Sea Peoples. A group of raiders that nearly toppled ancient Egypt. We know nothing about where they came from or who they were.

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GY0b5 TIL In the early 1960s The Friars Club unknowingly hosted a 5-year long elaborate card cheating scheme involving celebrities, the mafia, an accomplice peering through a hole in the ceiling, and wireless codes sent to a vibrating device hidden on the cheater at the table below. Millions were lost.
LkedP TIL Robert Moses at one point held 12 titles simultaneously (including New York City Parks Commissioner and Chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission). However he only held these positions as an appointee. When he ran for governor of New York as a Republican in 1934 he lost in a landslide.
eRXD TIL that the bunker where Hitler committed suicide has been converted into a playground.
Oopbe TIL that the USS Arizona and USS Utah, two ships which were both destroyed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, still continue to leak oil over 80 years later
D7GV TIL there is a frog which lets itself completely freeze into a ‘frogsicle’ every Winter. Its heart stills, blood stops flowing, and eyes go white because its lenses freeze. In the Summer it thaws and hops away, good as new!