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TIL Roald Dahl wrote a Bond film.

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KOgXQ TIL that Roman gladiators and legionnaires ate a vegetarian diet consisting of 78% carbohydrates, mainly from wheat or barley
7LGL TIL that the term “cold war” first appeared in a 1945 essay by the English writer George Orwell called “You and the Atomic Bomb.”
Y7J5G TIL That in June 2005, 3 movies based on the HG Wells novel War of the Worlds all came out in the same month
EggRW TIL Many civilizations believed that the "tooth worm" existed, a superstition that existed until the 18th century. A cuneiform tablet from the seventh century BCE titled “The Legend of the Worm” tells the tale of the tooth worm, a demon which drinks the blood and eats the roots of the teeth
1a9LD Today I learned that a Picasso was stolen from an art gallery in Melbourne, Australia by a group of people demanding more funding for the arts. The painting was stolen but the group were never found and no one was ever charged for the theft. The paining is now back on display.