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TIL Ancient Romans would flood the Colosseum and stage naval battles.

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jN65X TIL that “cat got your tongue” originates from Ancient Egypt where they cut the tongue for punishing blasphemy and fed to cats
rP6y TIL that when Charles II died the autopsy stated that his body “did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water.”
N7l5P TIL that the British colony of New South Wales originally included what is now New Zealand, the Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia, the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory, and Norfolk Island
6EJWY TIL that the percentage in a rain forecast is not the likelihood of it raining in the area, but the percentage of the area that will get rain.
oXb7 TIL Belgrade has been razed to the ground 44 times.