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TIL horses sleep standing up

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LxDv TIL of a Chinese general with 100 troops who had to defend a town against 150,000. He told his men to hide, flung open the gates and sat on the walls playing a lute. The opposing general, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat
JkJB TIL There were ancient stone tablets in Japan’s recent tsunami struck areas with inscriptions “Do not build your homes below this point!”
xVB55 TIL Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon (an ancestor of Cleopatra) was so despised after enacting a political purge that he had the nickname 'Physcon,' meaning 'Fatty'
0wArp TIL - Hoag's Object is the only known galaxy shaped like a doughnut. Discovered 1950 by Arthur Hoag it has an older yellow core with an outer ring of young blue stars & nothing in between. To add to the conundrum, at the 1 o'clock position there's a smaller version of the galaxy hidden within itself
y7VX TIL that Dole sued and tried to shut down documentarian Fredrik Gertten from showing his movie “bananas”(following a lawsuit, workers loosing limbs because of Doles poisoning). Gerttens reply was to make a documentary, about how Dole tried stop the movie, called it"Big boys goes bananas".