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TIL that Greek soldiers once provided enemy Turkish soldiers with ammunition to prevent them from using lead in the Parthenon to make their bullets.

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OvXR TIL 25 years ago one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims, a 14 year old Laotian boy, escaped only to be returned to him by the police. He was strangled to death shortly afterwards.
BrxDd TIL that 97% of the galaxies in our observable Universe are permanently unreachable by humans. The Universe is expanding so rapidly that even if humans left earth today, travelling at the speed of light, they could only ever reach about 3% of the total number of galaxies in our observable Universe.
OKMe TIL that Kenny from South Park was actually based on a real child Trey Parker went to school with. Kenny wore an orange parka that made his voice difficult to understand. Trey and the other kids also joked about Kenny “dying”, as Kenny skipped school often.
VB10m TIL how a shipping error 100 years ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry
kjp4 TIL that Alabama didn’t overturn their ban on interracial marriage until the year 2000.