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TIL in 2018 a Norwegian warship crashed in to a fuel tanker. Leaving the tanker with no major damage, but sinking the warship

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5YM49 TIL: Ancient Romans used a single hand to show numbers smaller than 100 and another hand to show greater than 100. And using both hands they could count up to 10,000.
l76wB TIL that aged cheeses, like Parmesan and Provolone, contain very low levels of lactose, making them mostly safe for those with lactose intolerance.
arlL TIL that five days before the bombing of Hiroshima, the U.S. Army Air Force dropped one million leaflets over the city and 33 other Japanese cities warning that those cities were going to be destroyed
XOrP TIL that Pablo Picasso, living in Nazi-occupied Paris, suffered harassment from the Gestapo. One officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of his painting Guernica in his apartment, “Did you do that?” Picasso responded, “No, you did.”
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