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

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WM6L TIL Google owns domains to cover mistypes such as: Gooogle, Gogle, Googel, and even 466453.
rM6d TIL in 2015 a bus driver in India took a nap on his bus, only to be awoken to a monkey that had climbed into the driver’s cabin & had started the engine. As the driver ran to the cabin, the monkey panicked, shifted gears & jumped out. The bus rammed 2 other buses before the driver regained control.
OoA7e TIL this purple snailfish was filmed at a depth of 5 miles using a deep sea camera-equipped lander in the Pacific Ocean's Atacama Trench located off the coast of Peru and Chile in 2018 making it the first time to ever see this species. Pink and blue snailfish were also filmed during the expedition.
Zpaja TIL the Pentagon launched up to 25 unmanned, high-altitude, solar-powered, mass surveillance balloons over the US in 2019
9Y8AX TIL dogs may have domesticated themselves. Historically, humans hunted wolves almost to extinction. This only changed when the boldest and friendliest scavenger wolves approached humans. Only then did the benefits of canine companionship become apparent.