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TIL: 150 hand-picked homosexual partners made up an elite ancient fighting force in Greece

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PYkNe TIL that juvenile crocodiles can climb trees
1avMV TIL As governor of New York, Teddy Roosevelt boxed with sparring partners several times each week, a practice he regularly continued as President until being hit so hard in the face he became blind in his left eye (a fact not made public until many years later).
Own4 TIL that bank robber John Wojtowicz plotted some of his robbery based on scenes in The Godfather (1972) starring Al Pacino. Al Pacino later went on to play John in the Academy Award winning movie Dog Day Afternoon (1975) based on the robbery.
pbre TIL that in Dutch Harbor, Alaska there are helmets and hockey sticks left outside the post office so that customers can protect themselves from aggressive bald eagles.
ZpJV4 TIL that Jeffrey Katzenberg told his employees at Quibi to listen to the song "Get Back Up Again" from the movie Trolls while announcing that they would be fired