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TIL that during World War I, a German armed merchant cruiser, disguised as the British ocean liner HMS Carmania, was unexpectedly confronted and sunk by the real HMS Carmania in a head-to-head clash.

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b9Wl9 TIL after capturing Alexandria, Diocletian ordered his soldiers to kill until the blood reached his horse's knees. As if on cue, the horse fell, staining its knees in blood. He took the gods' hint, and stopped the massacre. After he left, the Alexandrians erected built a statue in the horse's honor.
KYDxQ TIL that the 2001 film Shrek is based on a book.
ADGkl TIL Honduran white bats (Ectophylla alba) or Caribbean white tent-making bats, create their own daytime sleeping quarters by using their teeth to cut the ribs of large leaves causing them to fold down to form a tent. They appear as white puffballs when they gather in groups.The bats mostly eat figs.
l5yB TIL Michigan has a second-tier DUI law, known as the ‘Super Drunk Law’, for BACs over 0.17.
b6v77 TIL: A painting of Bea Arthur Naked sold for $1.9m