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TIL Sucking a king’s nipples was a gesture of submission in ancient Ireland.

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mxWdE TIL that tank silencers exist, and they’re bigger than the tank itself. They cost 100000$ to build.
x6e7D TIL that an ankylosaur fossil was discovered in 2011 so flawlessly preserved that some of its skin, armor, and stomach contents were still intact.
pY5DQ TIL that Minoru Yamasaki, the architect for the World Trade Center towers, never lived to see the attacks on 9/11. He died in 1986 at the at age of 73 from stomach cancer.
AELg TIL Steven Spielberg initially considered filming Schindler’s List entirely in German and Polish, but decided he “wanted people to watch the images, not read subtitles. There’s too much safety in reading. It would have been an excuse to take their eyes off the screen and watch something else.”
pYWob TIL the hats worn by American new wave band Devo were influenced by the German Bauhaus movement, geometric fashion, and Aztec temples. The band members especially liked that, "we kind of looked like Lego toys."