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TIL that the oldest love poem ever found is on an ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablet from the 21st century BC

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XEB4E TIL Spaniards abolished forced military conscription with massive civil disobedience
m6ko TIL: In WWII the U.S. dumped millions of dollars worth of Jeeps, Coca-Cola, food, etc. into the ocean to spite the British and French who refused to pay 6 cents on the dollar for everything, thinking eventually they’d get it for free. Found this scuba diving video of it today.
8eGa4 TIL in October 2004, it was reported that the Horniman Museum in London was failing to receive some of its email because filters mistakenly treated its name as a version of the words "horny man".
m1aYo TIL of Operation Plumbbob, where a nuclear bomb was detonated in a vertical tunnel with a 2,000lb (900kg) metal plate plugging the surface. The plate was launched into the air at 6 times Earth's escape velocity
loBv5 TIL Rodney Mullen only lost one out of 35 competitions in his career as a pro skater.