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BrNBr TIL Saddam Hussein purchased 4,000 PlayStation 2s in attempt to create a military supercomputer.
6EAyX TIL Emperor Commodus went insane, renaming everything after himself. Rome became Commodiana, the Legionaries > Commodianae, The Roman Senate > Commodian Senate, Roman > Commodian, and every month renamed after him. Eventually, the Prefects had enough and paid a wrestler to strangle him to death.
R7PMa TIL 100 square miles of LA are surrounded by a religious physical wall called an "eruv" which symbolically extends the private domain of Jewish households into public areas, permitting activities within it that are normally forbidden in public on the Sabbath, such as carrying babies.
PYWYZ TIL that The recent sales decline of Corona is due to decreased public activity in China, not due to sharing a name with covid19(coronavirus), and that this decline is experienced by many beer companies.
rpxy TIL A Queensland lungfish named Granddad has been living at the Shedd Aquarium since 1933. He is estimated to be over 100 years old.