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TIL a 13yo allergic to cheese died after a piece of cheese was thrown at him by a classmate.

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e0MQL TIL there have been at least 5 different Battles of Thermopylae aside from the one famously fought between the Greeks and Persians (popularized by "300") in 480 BC. The most recent of these battles was between the ANZACs and the Wermacht in 1941.
l7pDG TIL The High Treason Incident was a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor in 1910
NXkrP TIL a 2020 study found that New Zealand kea parrots were able to make decisions based on probability, and to use knowledge they've already learned to predict what events might happen in the future. They are the first animal to demonstrate this "complex cognitive ability" outside of great apes.
nWaeY TIL about "The Bell of Good Luck", the heaviest functioning bell in the world at 116 metric tons (255,200 lbs). It's 8.1 metres high and 5.1 metres in diameter
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